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First Edition. For conditions, please view our photographs. A terrific resource — deeply Biblical, always faithful, and loaded with riches. This is one of Packer’s gifts and enduring legacies: to teach, to catechize the Church with the aim to be rooted and established in sound doctrine… and so rooted in the right relationship, love, and worship of God through Christ.

Review: This book truly delivers on its title! Before I bought this book I was familiar with J.I. Packer’s Knowing God and was intrigued when I found out that he had written a concise overview of theology. I read in the introduction to Knowing God that Packer is accustomed to writing shorter articles on various topics, the material of which was put together to make Knowing God. So the format of this book allows Packer to do what he does best, writing 95 condensed studies on theological topics, and he does this extremely well! The book is a superb presentation of theology in bite-sized sections with 95 chapters each only a few pages long. The sweep of theology is covered from revelation, theology proper, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, sin, salvation, the church, some Christian living topics, and the end times. Each chapter is direct and well explained as Packer has a wonderful way with words and noting relevant verse references leading to sections that are very informative and deep, making this book refreshing as a theological read that encourages theological reflection. Packer masterfully writes in a devotional and practical style that consistently remains on point with whatever topic is being addressed. His background is Covenantal and Anglican, but I rarely found this to be a hindrance in this theological study because he is charitable to other positions. The title really explains some of the limitations this book has that should not count against it: 1) it does not reference other theological literature frequently, 2) every theological nuance or possible question is not addressed in the book; but again this book does not set out to be a lengthy systematic. I wonder (and hope) that the author might produce a more lengthy systematic in the future! This is a book that would be great for a group study. It is also works very well as a theological reference as I find myself turning to it again and again. I highly recommend it to all as a refreshing walk through theology and a useful theological tool.

J.I. Packer currently serves as the Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. An ordained Anglican minister, he hold a D.Phil. from Oxford University. Dr. Packer’s many published works include “Rediscovering Holiness, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God,” and the best-selling “Knowing God.”