He was Librarian of Latimer House, Oxford 1961-62 and Principal 1962-69. He was Assistant Curate of Harborne Heath in Birmingham 1952-54 and Lecturer at Tyndale Hall, Bristol 1955-61. He was ordained a deacon (1952) and priest (1953) in the Church of England, within which he became recognized as a leader in the Evangelical movement. He spent a brief time teaching Greek at Oak Hill Theological College in London, and in 1949 entered Wycliffe Hall, Oxford to study theology. In a meeting of the Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, Packer committed his life to Christian service. Lewis whose teachings would become a major influence in his life. It was as a student at Oxford where he first met C.S. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, obtaining the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (1948), Master of Arts (1952), and Doctor of Philosophy (1955). The son of a clerk for the Great Western Railway, Packer won a scholarship to Oxford University. He is considered to be one of the most important evangelical theologians of the late 20th century. He currently serves as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. James Innell Packer (born in Gloucester, England) is a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the Calvinistic Anglican tradition. Packer, “ The Puritan View of Preaching the Gospel,” in Puritan Papers, Vol 1.
Our message is ‘another gospel, which is not another.’ Such preaching may soothe some, but it will help nobody for a Christ who is not seen and sought as a Saviour from sin will not be found to save from self or from anything else.Īn imaginary Christ will not bring a real salvation and a half-truth presented as the whole truth is a complete untruth.”
We are, in effect bearing false witness and preaching a false Christ. And if we are silent about these things, and preach a Christ who saves only from self and the sorrows of this world, we are not preaching the Christ of the Bible. “If we do not preach about sin and God’s judgment on it, we cannot present Christ as Saviour from sin and the wrath of God.
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