A Lost Theological Opportunity?

[bookslover]

I'd bet that the question J. I. Packer gets asked most is, "Why did you never write a systematic theology?"

I saw a short clip somewhere in which Carl Trueman pays Packer the high compliment of saying that, if Packer had written one, he could have been the Charles Hodge or the Benjamin Warfield of his time.

I still think Packer's first book, Fundamentalism and the 'Word of God' (1958) is one of his best.

 

[aadebayo]

I still wonder why he was a signatory to the Evangelicals and Catholics together. He is one of the most faithful theologians alive today. That will remain a mystery to me.

 

[yeutter]

J. I. Packer's Concise Theology Is not a full blown systematics; but it has whetted the appetites of many Anglicans to read both the church fathers and systematics written by reformed theologians.