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During the past 20 years, J. I. Packer's classic has revealed to over one million Christians around the world the wonder, the glory and the joy of knowing God. This anniversary edition is completely retypeset, with Americanized language and spelling, and a new preface by the author. During July 2000, winner of the Platinum Book Award from Evangelical Christian Publishing Association in recognition of more than one million copies sold (and that's just in North America!)
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A lifelong pursuit of knowing God should embody the Christian's existence. According to eminent theologian J.I. Packer, however, Christians have become enchanted by modern skepticism and have joined the "gigantic conspiracy of misdirection" by failing to put first things first. Knowing God aims to redirect our attention to the simple, deep truth that to know God is to love His Word. What began as a number of consecutive articles angled for "honest, no-nonsense readers who were fed up with facile Christian verbiage" in 1973, Knowing God has become a contemporary classic by creating "small studies out of great subjects." Each chapter is so specific in focus (covering topics such as the trinity, election, God's wrath, and God's sovereignty), that each succeeding chapter's theology seems to rival the next, until one's mind is so expanded that one's entire view of God has changed. Author Elizabeth Eliot wrote that amid the lofty content Packer "puts the hay where the sheep can reach it--plainly shows us ordinary folks what it means to know God." Having rescued us from the individual hunches of our ultra-tolerant theological age, Packer points the reader to the true character of God with his theological competence and compassionate heart. The lazy and faint-hearted should be warned about this timeless work--God is magnified, the sinner is humbled, and the saint encouraged. --Jill Heatherly
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Rating : - A Must-Read for the Christian
I cannot recommend J.I. Packer's Knowing God too highly, primarily because I have never read a book that has more practically changed my own life. No work - obviously excepting the divinely inspired Word of God - has taught me more truth, opened my eyes more often, or spurred me to love God more strongly. As the dustcover says, "J.I. Packer's classic has revealed to over a million Christians around the world the wonder, the glory and the joy of knowing God." I can't think of a better, more enticing tagline to put on a book than that.
Quoted on the cover of another book is Packer's sentiment that, "To rush to God...with no pause to realize his greatness and grace and our own sinfulness and smallness, is at once to dishonor him and to make shallow our own fellowship with him." I believe that the true worth of Knowing God is that it leads the reader to meditate on each of those issues by sharing Dr. Packer's own meditations on God. The book builds up God's greatness and glorifies his grace, while it forces the reader to realize his own sinfulness and smallness in light of God's character. In so doing, this book leads the reader to honor God rightly, thereby deepening his fellowship with the Lord.
In a chapter entitled "The Majesty of God," Dr. Packer asks, "How may we form a right idea of God's greatness?" His answer is that the Bible shows us the two steps we must take:
"The first is to remove from our thoughts of God limits that would make him small. The second is to compare him with powers and forces which we regard as great."
To serve this end, the author gives a stirring exhortation at the end of the chapter: "How slow we are to believe in God as God, sovereign, all-seeing and almighty! How little we make of the majesty of our Lord and Savior Christ! The need for us is to `wait upon the Lord' in meditations on his majesty, till we find our strength renewed through the writing of these things upon our hearts."
I, personally, have committed to reading this book at least once a year, because it has done more in bringing me to meditate upon God's majesty rightly than has any other book I have read. I feel strongly that every Christian ought to read through Knowing God at least once, for Dr. Packer's simultaneous uses of wisdom and encouragement lead the reader into a deeper knowledge of God. It seeks to drive the reader from a passive, intellectual knowledge `about God' to a powerful, life-changing knowledge `of God.' This book, more than any other, has taught me what it means to seek to be "knowing God."
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