SPANISH EDITION. "Knowing God" is one of the most important and popular Christian books of our time.
A lifelong pursuit of knowing God should embody the Christian's existence. According to eminent theologian J.I. Packer, however, Christians have become enchanted by modern skepticism and have joined the "gigantic conspiracy of misdirection" by failing to put first things first. Knowing God aims to redirect our attention to the simple, deep truth that to know God is to love His Word. What began as a number of consecutive articles angled for "honest, no-nonsense readers who were fed up with facile Christian verbiage" in 1973, Knowing God has become a contemporary classic by creating "small studies out of great subjects." Each chapter is so specific in focus (covering topics such as the trinity, election, God's wrath, and God's sovereignty), that each succeeding chapter's theology seems to rival the next, until one's mind is so expanded that one's entire view of God has changed. Author Elizabeth Eliot wrote that amid the lofty content Packer "puts the hay where the sheep can reach it--plainly shows us ordinary folks what it means to know God." Having rescued us from the individual hunches of our ultra-tolerant theological age, Packer points the reader to the true character of God with his theological competence and compassionate heart. The lazy and faint-hearted should be warned about this timeless work--God is magnified, the sinner is humbled, and the saint encouraged. --Jill Heatherly
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A Must-Read for the Christian:
I cannot recommend J.I. Packer's Knowing God too highly, primarily because I have never read a book that has more practically changed my own life. No work - obviously excepting the divinely inspired Word of God - has taught me more truth, opened my eyes more often, or spurred me to love God more strongly. As the dustcover says, "J.I. Packer's classic has revealed to over a million Christians around the world the wonder, the glory and the joy of knowing God." I can't think of a better, more enticing tagline... more info
Masterpiece by a Master Theologian:
In the early 1970's, the editor of Evangelical approached J.I. Packer and asked him to write a series of articles on God "angled for honest, no-nonsense readers who were fed up with facile Christian verbiage." Packer, a longtime professor of theology at Regent University in Vancouver, then began producing articles at two-month intervals for the now bygone publication. This series was later edited and packaged into this book. Thirty years and more than one million copies later, this work is still widely... more info
Good Read:
I believe this book "Knowing God" by J.I. Picker will help expand your mind about God. It will help people see God as a compassionate, loving Creator. Packer includes lots of scripture which I believe is important in a book of this nature.
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I really liked it.:
I truly enjoyed this book. All Christians should pick up a copy. Yes it's a heavy read that tries to explain all the attributes of God, but still one gets a sense of the grace of God through it all. The book also tries to explain the love of God. If you truly want a greater understanding of God I suggest you read the book entitled The Enlightenment, What God Told Me After One Million Prayers: A Message for Everyone. This book will bring you closer to understanding who God is more than anything else. [...]
