false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113571m/139855.jpg 139855 9 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. <I>Knowing God</I> 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, <I>Knowing God</I> 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. <I>--Jill Heatherly</I> 276686 1970 Knowing God total:693|5:337|4:229|3:92|2:27|1:8| 693 2939 1110 87 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat May 19 07:27:34 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 03:45:42 -0700 2007 ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 22:57:18 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 09:46:20 -0800 2008 Knowing God is a modern Christian classic about the basics of Christian theology, yet it is written at a level that the public can understand. It is pastoral in tone, exhorting the believer to know God truly as He is, not as humans often misconceive. The book is especially good for someone who has n...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 09:20:06 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 13:34:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 17:06:02 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 13:15:41 -0700 2009
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