So I really appreciated Carl Trueman's summary of Packer's legacy as he sees it. (HT: Westminster Bookstore)
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Write Like a Tree: The Slow Habits of Christian Sub-Creation
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“One writes out of the leaf-mould of the mind.” This is J.R.R. Tolkien’s
answer to how he wrote *The Lord of the Rings*. Here’s ...
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Yikes! Some pretty bold comments by Carl Trueman regarding J.I. Packer:
"Packer is, in a sense, a failure" at the 3:30 mark: [???]
1)"He (Packer) never wrote the great systematic theology he was capable of."
2) "His failure to come out in 1966 and challenge the authority of Martyn Lloyd-Jones as the leader of British Non-Conformist Evangelicalism."
Truemann 'redeems' himself in complementing Packer's model of humility at the 4:30 mark.
Overall, I think Truemann is quite gutsy in his summary of James Packer. Some, will most certainly, have a hard time swallowing Trueman's comments.
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