![]() ![]() ![]() I never had the privilege of meeting or hearing him, and he would not have approved of the direction of my calling as an ordained woman. So has his book A Quest for Godliness, which fed the fire of a love for the Puritans that became formative for my faith and my work. It has crossed continents with me several times since then. Packer’s Knowing God was one of the very first books I read soon after I came to faith in my late teens. Suzanne McDonald, professor of systematic and historical theology, Western Theological Seminary: ![]() His warning-about how offensive it was to God to worship him wrongly or according to the dictates of our imaginations-was a thunderbolt to my soul. Packer showed me that loving God with all my heart necessitated loving him correctly with my mind. Knowing God remains one of the most important books I’ve ever read, one I have returned to many times and one that I have taken many others through. Packer, along with a few of his contemporaries, to establish the theological core for our generation. Greear, PhD, president of the Southern Baptist Convention: And may we eat chicken vindaloo and drink white wine at the wedding supper of the Lamb. May we all be as faithful as he in our vocations, whatever they may be. So here’s to Jim Packer, lover of God, teacher of the church, now gathered to the saints with Jesus in paradise. Packer’s capacity to capture complex propositions with utter clarity and succinctness was astonishing, and his joy in the task of theology was undimmed and infectious. What a mind! And what a heart for Christ and his church. I'm saddened by his passing but indescribably grateful for the chance to have worked with him and known him as a person, if only a little bit. ![]() He always ordered chicken vindaloo with white wine. He loved Indian food, and we would go to his favorite restaurant whenever we were in Vancouver. Packer’s lips during the years we worked together on the catechism of the Anglican Church in North America. “Chicken vindaloo, as hot as you can make it!” That was one of the more unanticipated sentences I heard from J. Joel Scandrett, assistant professor of historical theology, Trinity School for Ministry: I thank God for his friendship, his courage, his intellectual rigor, his prayerfulness, his gentle humor, and above all, his love of the Lord and of Scripture. Jim, the intellectual giant of the three, encouraged me from our first meeting in 1969 to my final one 50 years later. Widely discounted by the liberal establishment, they carved out space for my generation to develop in new ways. In the 1960s, three men set an example of robustly intelligent evangelicalism: John Stott, Michael Green, and Jim Packer. Wright, senior research fellow, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University: Packer shape your faith and work? Some of the respondents were his close friends and colleagues, others studied under him, and still others knew him only through his writing. To mark the moment, we asked 20 Christian thought leaders to answer this question: How did J. He was “one of the most famous and influential evangelical leaders of our time,” according to Leland Ryken, professor emeritus of English at Wheaton College and author of J. ![]()
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