Few doctrines are more beautiful than penal substitution. To behold it is to stare into the Godhead itself. Penal substitution shows us a God who is three in one. It shows us the simplicity of God. It shows us the self-sufficiency of God. Penal substitution shows us the love of God and the nature of that love. It shows us the righteousness and justice of God. It shows us the holiness of God. Penal substitution is good news for those who have hurt and those who have been hurt. Amidst this beauty and glory, our world and our sin conspire to render penal substitution nonsensical. To enjoy the glory and to wage the battle, 9Marks devotes this Journal to penal substitutionary atonement. The theological and practical meditations alike should create a joy which you will want to share.
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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