From the author of bestselling books Knowing God and Rediscovering Holiness comes a collection of writings that pastors and theologians will want in their collections.
How should Christians behave toward one another and towards the world?
How are we to be the face of Christ when seeing God is so difficult?
J. I. Packer explores these and other challenging questions in this third volume of his collected writings. In four sections, Packer examines questions regarding the church as it is, the church as it should be, evangelism, and Christian living, exploring such topics as conscience, morality, sanctification--and even leisure.
Chapters include:
The Nature of the Church
The Real Meaning of the Real Presence
The Holy Spirit and the Local Congregation
Is Christianity Credible?
Dr. Packer, the Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology at Regent College, was hailed by TIME as “a doctrinal Solomon” among Protestants. “Mediating debates on everything from a particular Bible translation to the acceptability of free-flowing Pentecostal spirituality, Packer helps unify a community [evange licalism] that could easily fall victim to its internal tensions.”
Knowing God, Dr. Packer’s seminal 1973 work, was lauded as a book which articulated shared beliefs for members of diverse denominations; the TIME profile quotes Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington as saying, “conservative Methodists and Presbyterians and Baptists could all look to [Knowing God] and say, ‘This sums it all up for us.’”
In a similar tribute to Dr. Packer almost ten years ago, American theologian Mark Noll wrote in Christianity Today that, “Packer’s ability to address immensely important subjects in crisp, succinct sentences is one of the reasons why, both as an author and speaker, he has played such an important role among American evangelicals for four decades.”
For over 25 years Regent College students have been privileged to study under Dr. Packer’s clear and lucid teaching, and our faculty, staff and students celebrate the international recognition he rightly receives as a leading Christian thinker and teacher.
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