Knowing God
by J. I. Packer
Packer's 1973 classic: knowing God versus knowing about him, the attributes (majesty, wisdom, love, grace, judgement, wrath, goodness, jealousy), and the Christian life as adoption. Rigorous, warm and the standard evangelical doctrine of God for the lay reader.
Read it if…
you want solid theology that reads like devotion.
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Skip it if…
you want a short book; it rewards slow reading.
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Three things you will actually use
- Knowing about God is not knowing God.
- Adoption is the highest privilege of the gospel.
- Meditate on what you know.
Do this first
Read the chapter 'Sons of God' on adoption.
Our verdict
Doctrine that reads like devotion.
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