Packer sets out with clarity and compassion a concern he has about trends in his 1992 essay “The Comfort of Conservatism,” which is a highly accessible account of the potential role that tradition might play in the stabilization of evangelicalism.16 Packer’s intimate knowledge and experience of North American evangelicalism led him to appreciate the dangers of individualism, which seemed to him to engender a dangerously superficial and ephemeral form of Christianity. For Packer, tradition is an antidote