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J. I. Packer and the Evangelical Future: The Impact of His Life and Thought is unavailable, but you can change that!

J. I. Packer is one of the most significant evangelical theologians of the last one hundred years. He has had a deep and encompassing influence on many renewal movements within North American Christianity and has become a highly regarded leader in the global Christian movement through his many books and worldwide lecturing. Here a stellar team of scholars examines some of the major aspects of...

is where the absolute ‘last word’ of Scripture must sort the wheat from the chaff. Hence, the apostle Paul’s counsel: ‘… test everything; hold fast what is good’ (1 Thess. 5:21 ESV).”21 Tradition, for Packer, is thus something that must be judged. It can too easily shape our readings of Scripture, highlighting some ideas and obscuring others. All Protestants, Packer reminds us, stand within traditions—whether Anglican or Baptist, Pentecostal or Dispensationalist, Reformed or Lutheran, Methodist or
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