Loading…

J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

However, in his words: “It didn’t work and that was a deeply frustrating and depressing thing.… In fact, it was driving me crazy.” Packer claims that he felt like the “poor drug addict” whom he once saw trying to walk through a brick wall, as well as like someone who kept “missing the bus.” He experienced all of this as “an immature and churned-up young man.” He later subjected the experience to a mature understanding and offered this critique of the Keswick view of sanctification: “It offers a greater
Page 47