This quickened my heartbeat, for I had come to Cambridge to answer the question, “What does it mean to be biblical when we speak about God?” I had learned that there was no easy way around the challenge of the plurality of interpretations, in which everyone, or at least every denomination, finds in the Bible what they think is right in their own eyes. The topic of Packer’s Tyndale House address was biblical authority and hermeneutics. He later moved from Oxford to Trinity College, Bristol, and eventually to Regent College, Vancouver, where he taught theology from 1979 to 2016, long after his official retirement. He obtained all his degrees, including his doctorate, from Oxford University and later served as warden of Latimer House, the Oxford counterpart of Tyndale House. That in itself was impressive, as Jim was decidedly an Oxford man. Packer had come to Cambridge to give a lecture at Tyndale House, a study center for evangelical biblical scholars. It proved to be an apt choice: Packer is one of the handful of authors I’ve met who lived up to, and in his case surpassed, the mental image I had constructed through reading his works. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia was the second). It was also the first book I gave to the woman who would later become my wife (C.

Knowing God had been published in 1973 and was by then an established bestseller. Packer, the elder statesman of evangelical theology-and had been for some time.

Packer in Cambridge in the mid-1980s when I was a doctoral student at Cambridge University.

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