# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-i-packer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:55:39.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-i-packer"
name: "J. I. Packer"
slug: "j-i-packer"
description: "James Innell Packer was an English-born Canadian evangelical theologian, cleric and writer in the low-church Anglican and Reformed traditions. Having been considered as one of the most influential evangelicals in North America, Packer is known for his 1973 best-selling book Knowing God, along with his work as the general editor of the English Standard Version Bible. He was one of the high-profile signers on the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, a member on the advisory board of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and also was involved in the ecumenical book Evangelicals and Catholics Together in 1994. His last teaching position was as the board of governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, in which he served from 1996 until his retirement in 2016 due to failing eyesight."
tagline: "Canadian theologian (1926-2020)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1926-07-22"
deathDate: "2020-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump