Further Reading
Further Reading
Biographies of Packer
McGrath, Alister E., To Know and Serve God: A Biography of James I. Packer (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998); US edition: J. I. Packer: A Biography (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books , 1998).
Ryken, Leland, J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2015).
Studies of Packer
George, Timothy (ed.), J. I. Packer and the Evangelical Future: The Impact of His Life and Thought (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2009).
Lewis, Donald M. and Alister E. McGrath (eds), Doing Theology for the People of God: Studies in Honor of J. I. Packer (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996).
Payne, Donald J., The Theology of the Christian Life in J. I. Packer’s Thought: Theological Anthropology, Theological Method, and the Doctrine of Sanctification (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2006).
Steer, Roger, Guarding the Holy Fire: The Evangelicalism of John R. W. Stott, J. I. Packer, and Alister McGrath (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1999).
Storms, C. Samuel, Packer on the Christian Life: Knowing God in Christ, Walking by the Spirit (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2015).
Core Works by J. I. Packer
The best source for a full list of Packer’s works up to 2008 is Timothy George (ed.), J. I. Packer and the Evangelical Future: The Impact of His Life and Thought (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2009), pp. 187−230. For a representative collection of his more important articles, see Alister E. McGrath (ed.), The J. I. Packer Collection (Leicester: InterVarsity Press, 1999).
Four major works of representative importance should be noted:
Packer, J. I., Concise Theology: A Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1993).
Packer, J. I., ‘Fundamentalism’ and the Word of God (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1958).
Packer, J. I., Knowing God (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973).
Packer, J. I., A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1990).