J. I. Packer
James Innell Packer (22 July 1926 – 17 July 2020) was an English-born Canadian evangelical theologian, cleric and writer in the low-church Anglican and Calvinist traditions. He was considered one of the most influential evangelicals in North America, known for his best-selling book Knowing God, written in 1973, as well as his work as an editor for the English Standard Version of the Bible. He was one of the high-profile signers on the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, a member on the advisory board of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and also was involved in the ecumenical book Evangelicals and Catholics Together in 1994. His last teaching position was as the board of governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, in which he served from 1996 until his retirement in 2016 due to failing eyesight.
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Packer in the 1950s | |
| Born | James Innell Packer 22 July 1926 Twyning, England |
| Died | 17 July 2020 (aged 93) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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Kit Mullett (m. 1954) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | James Packer, Dorothy Packer |
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| Religion | Christian (Anglican) |
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| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Oxford Wycliffe Hall, Oxford |
| Thesis | The Redemption and Restoration of Man in the Thought of Richard Baxter (1954) |
| Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Nuttall |
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| Discipline | Theology |
| Sub-discipline | Systematic theology |
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| Notable works | Knowing God (1973) |
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