The Modern Era · 1973
Knowing God
J. I. Packer · 1926–2020
What it is
Doctrine written for ordinary readers on the conviction that knowing about God and knowing God are different things: the attributes, the wrath, the adoption of believers as sons, each turned toward worship rather than left as information.
Why it lasted
The book that persuaded a generation of evangelicals that theology was for them, and the most durable popular systematic of the late twentieth century.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
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