![]() In 1937, Packer went to The Crypt School, where he specialized in the classics. He went on to cherish typewriters for the rest of his life. At 11 years of age, Packer was gifted with an old Oliver typewriter. When he was seven, Packer suffered a severe head injury in a collision with a bread van, which precluded him from playing sports, so he became interested in reading and writing. ![]() His father was a clerk for the Great Western Railway and his lower-middle-class family was only nominally Anglican, attending the local St. ![]() Packer was born on 22 July 1926 in Twyning, Gloucestershire, England to James and Dorothy Packer. ![]() His last teaching position was as the board of governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, in which he served from 1996 until his retirement in 2016 due to failing eyesight. He was one of the high-profile signers on the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, a member on the advisory board of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and also was involved in the ecumenical book Evangelicals and Catholics Together in 1994. He was considered one of the most influential evangelicals in North America, known for his best-selling book, Knowing God, written in 1973, as well as his work as an editor for the English Standard Version of the Bible. James Innell Packer (22 July 1926 – 17 July 2020) was an English-born Canadian evangelical theologian, cleric and writer in the low-church Anglican and Calvinist traditions. ![]()
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