James I. Packer, the son of a Gloucester railway clerk, rose to become one of the most influential evangelical, theological and spiritual writers of the twentieth century. He is widely admired as a theologian with a rare gift of being able to communicate his ideas with clarity and passion to a wide variety of audiences. Many Christians have identified him as one of the greatest influences of their lives.
Packer has authored more than 300 works over fifty years of his writing ministry. From this massive body of literature, Alister McGrath has selected sixteen core writings, faithfully...

It is fashionable among biblical scholars to assume that the book of Daniel is a pseudepigraphon written in the second century BCE. But this book demonstrates that instead, it is more probably the notes and memoirs of the prime minister of Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar, and later an official in the court of Cyrus, written in the sixth century BCE. Hence these scholars are probably mistaken: as J.I. Packer says in his foreword, there is voluminous evidence to the contrary, brought together in West's book. For example, the assumption that the book is a veiled political diatribe against the...