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Packer was born on 22 July 1926 in Twyning, Gloucestershire, England to James and Dorothy Packer. [6] [7] His sister, Margaret, was born in 1929. [7]His father was a clerk for the Great Western Railway and his lower-middle-class family was only nominally Anglican, attending the local St. Catherine's Church.
Knowing God is a book by J. I. Packer, a British-born Canadian Christian theologian. It is his best-known work, having sold over 1,000,000 copies in North America alone. [1] Originally written as a series of articles for the Evangelical Magazine, it was first published as a book in 1973 and has been reprinted several times.
Ann Packer (born 1942), English sprinter, hurdler and long jumper; Anya Packer (born 1991), American ice hockey player; Billy Packer (1940–2023), American college basketball commentator; Brian Packer (1944–2021), British boxer; Chris Packer (c. 1953 – 2013), Australian sport sailor; Donald Packer (born 1948), Canadian water polo player
The first Warden was Richard Coates (1960–61); he was followed by J.I.Packer (1962–69), John Wenham (1969-73), Roger Beckwith (1973–94) and Nigel Atkinson (1995–98). Towards the end of the 1990s the trust struggled financially so the decision was made, with the permission of the Charities Commission, to wind it up and roll the proceeds ...
According to J. I. Packer, evangelicals stress the supremacy of scripture; the majesty of Jesus Christ; the lordship of the Holy Spirit; the necessity of conversion (either instantaneous or gradual) [5] and a new birth; the priority of evangelism and the importance of fellowship. [6]
John J McNeill (1925–2015) Charles Ryrie (1925–2016) Frederick Buechner (1926–2022) H. Ray Dunning (born 1926) Jurgen Moltmann (1926–2024) J. I. Packer (1926–2020) Thomas J. J. Altizer (1927–2018) [16] Gerhard Forde (1927–2005) Chuck Smith (1927–2013) Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (1927–2022) John Howard Yoder (1927–1997)
In 1959, the Banner of Truth Trust republished the book (as simply The Death of Death in the Death of Christ) with an introduction by J. I. Packer. In it, Packer stated that nobody has yet "refuted Owen's proof that [limited atonement] is part of the uniform biblical presentation of redemption".
In March 2006, Packer began discussing whether to sell Channel Nine and the Australian Consolidated Press magazine group to help fund his move into the international gaming and tourism business. [14] Given changes in media due to the Internet and pay-TV, Packer was concerned about the future of free-to-air television.