14 Lesser-Known Details about J. I. Packer

Packer’s answers to the question of how he would like to be remembered included the following: “an encourager”; “as a voice that called people back to old paths of truth and wisdom”; and as someone who called into question two deficiencies of contemporary evangelicalism—the personality cult and the short-memory syndrome that privileges the contemporary and forgets the Christian past (as represented by such giants as Augustine, John Calvin, and Charles Spurgeon).