The Glorious Fault of Angels and of Gods: Ungodly Reflections on Alister Chapman's John Stott - Reformation21

Carl Trueman, professor of church history at Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia, shared this insightful comment:

Three things in particular intrigued me with respect to Chapman's Stott. First, I cannot help but wonder about the move of Packer to Regent College in 1979. Coming at the end of a decade of doctrinal disaster for Anglicanism, the move seems more than just the result of a good offer of employment. Packer had fallen out with the non-conformist wing of British evangelicalism through his disagreement with Lloyd-Jones on evangelical union and then his ecumenical alliance with Anglo-Catholics such as E L Mascall. Yet Stott's Anglicanism was scarcely more conducive to Packer: Stott's suspicion of systematic theology, his increasing interest in social activism, his closer links to the Anglican Establishment and his personal ambition all suggest that he would not have been particularly enamoured of Packer's vision for the church. I once heard a leading Anglican evangelical theologian say that Packer went to Canada because there was nowhere in Britain where he could turn. Reading between the lines of Chapman's book, I find such a view quite plausible.

Note carefully the British understatement. Maybe this ousting of Packer is also why he has taken up with the Anglo-Papists? To read more, click here:


The Glorious Fault of Angels and of Gods: Ungodly Reflections on Alister Chapman's John Stott - Reformation21