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Over the last sixty years, J. I. Packer has exerted a steady and remarkable influence on evangelicalism. In this biography, well-known scholar Leland Ryken acquaints us with Packer’s life, heart, and mind, tracing the outworking of God’s sovereign plan through his childhood, intellectual pursuits, and professional life. Filled with personal anecdotes and little-known facts, this appreciative...

the nature of the atonement with an Arminian view of its scope.” Packer has the intellectual inclination to thrive in such theological discourse, but his sense of vocation to the ordinary Christian has led him away from it (even though his own thinking is undergirded by specialized knowledge).