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James Innell Packer
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
James Innell Packer
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

James Innell Packer

Canadian, 1926 - 2020
James Innell Packer was an English-born Canadian evangelical theologian, cleric and writer in the low-church Anglican and Calvinist traditions. He was considered one of the most influential evangelicals in North America, known for his best-selling book Knowing God, written in 1973.