One of the world’s most renowned evangelical theologians, J.I. Packer, author of the bestselling book, Knowing God, died Friday at the age of 93.
The cause of death of James Innell Packer, widely known as J.I. Packer, is believed to be natural, according to his obituary.
Though born into a lower-middle-class family in a village outside of Gloucester, England, Packer, a lifelong Anglican churchman, wrote hundreds of Christian books and articles for nearly 70 years. He was educated at Oxford University on scholarships.
Paying tribute to the British-born Canadian Christian theologian, Justin Taylor, an executive vice president for book publishing at Crossway, wrote, “I can only add that in every single encounter that I was privileged to have with him, I came away thinking of him not as a great man, but as a man who had personally encountered a Great Savior.”
Jonathan Brook, lead pastor at Refuge Church in North Carolina, wrote on Twitter that Knowing God has been one of the most…
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