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Best Christian Books of All Time Reviews: Knowing God, Pt. II

April 25, 2013 by John Hundley 5 Comments

Last week I wrote the first part of what will be a several-part review of J.I. Packer's Knowing God.   This week I'm going to take a look at the remaining chapters of Part I before moving on and moving through a bit of Part II. Knowledge and Idolatry Chapter 3, "Knowing and Being Known," deals more directly with the distinction between knowledge  about  and knowledge  of (which I highlighted in last Thursday's post).  I like to call the former "factual" and the latter "intimate."  Concerning the latter, Packer … [Read more...] about Best Christian Books of All Time Reviews: Knowing God, Pt. II

Filed Under: Best Christian Book of All Time, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Book Review, Holy Spirit, idolatry, incarnation, Inerrancy, intervarsity press, J.I. Packer, jesus, Knowing God, The Best Christian Books of All Time, theology

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