During the past 20 years, J. I. Packer's classic has revealed to over one million Christians around the world the wonder, the glory and the joy of knowing God. This anniversary edition is completely retypeset, with Americanized language and spelling, and a new preface by the author.

Table of Contents

Preface (1993)
Preface (1973)

I. Know the Lord
1. The Study of God
2. The People Who Know Their God
3. Knowing and Being Known
4. The Only True God
5. God Incarnate
6. He Shall Testify

II. Behold Your God!
7. God Unchanging
8. The Majesty of God
9. God Only Wise
10. God’s Wisdom and Ours
11. Thy Word Is Truth
12. The Love of God
13. The Grace of God
14. God the Judge
15. The Wrath of God
16. Goodness and Severity
17. The Jealous God

III. If God Be For Us . . .
18. The Heart of the Gospel
19. Sons of God
20. Thou Our Guide
21. These Inward Trials
22. The Adequacy of God

Index of Biblical Passages

Page Count: 286

BOOK REVIEW:

J.I. Packer’s book Knowing God, first published in 1973, has surely been around long enough now to be considered a classic. I remember reading it as a new Christian, riding a train back from New Mexico to Wisconsin after visiting my grandparents. The soothing, rhythmic clicking of train on track melds in my mind with the rich, mind-stretching truths about God I was discovering as I read this book.

At least one endorsement of Knowing God affirms that the chapter “Sons of God” alone is worth the cost of the whole book. Through all my reading about our being adopted by God, this remains my favorite. Packer says that “If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thoughts of being God’s child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thoughts that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.”

Packer claims that adoption is “the highest privilege that the gospel offers” and then thoroughly draws out what this can and should mean to us. He revels in the wonder of being adopted by God, and will make you revel, too.