Dieses Booklet enthält das Einführungsessay von Dr. J. I. Packer, das der Neuherausgabe des Originalwerks von John Owen, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ vorangestellt war. Das Essay ist einer der meistgelesenen Texte Packers und hat – obwohl die Erstveröffentlichung schon über 60 Jahre zurückliegt – seine Aktualität nicht verloren. Es enthält eine pointierte Darstellung und Verteidigung des „alten“ Evangeliums und lässt sich unabhängig vom Werk Owens lesen. Packer beleuchtet sehr klar die Folgen für den Glauben und die Predigt, wenn das „alte“ durch ein anderes, „neues“ Evangelium ersetzt wird. Daher hat Evangelium21 sich entschieden, das Essay als eigenständiges Booklet herauszubringen.
Dr. Packer, the Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology at Regent College, was hailed by TIME as “a doctrinal Solomon” among Protestants. “Mediating debates on everything from a particular Bible translation to the acceptability of free-flowing Pentecostal spirituality, Packer helps unify a community [evange licalism] that could easily fall victim to its internal tensions.”
Knowing God, Dr. Packer’s seminal 1973 work, was lauded as a book which articulated shared beliefs for members of diverse denominations; the TIME profile quotes Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington as saying, “conservative Methodists and Presbyterians and Baptists could all look to [Knowing God] and say, ‘This sums it all up for us.’”
In a similar tribute to Dr. Packer almost ten years ago, American theologian Mark Noll wrote in Christianity Today that, “Packer’s ability to address immensely important subjects in crisp, succinct sentences is one of the reasons why, both as an author and speaker, he has played such an important role among American evangelicals for four decades.”
For over 25 years Regent College students have been privileged to study under Dr. Packer’s clear and lucid teaching, and our faculty, staff and students celebrate the international recognition he rightly receives as a leading Christian thinker and teacher.
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