[Foreword] I had the privilege of knowing James Packer, or "Jim" (as he told me and many others to call him), personally.

[Series Preface] John Piper once wrote that books do not change people, but paragraphs do.

[Biography of J. I. Packer] James Innell Packer (1926-2020] was born in England.

The task that I have set myself in this lecture is to focus on and explicate a belief that, by and large, is a distinguishing mark of the worldwide evangelical fraternity: namely, the belief that the cross had the character of penal substitution, and that it was in virtue of this fact that it brought salvation to mankind.