Knowing God is a book by British-born Canadian Christian theologian J. I. Packer

J. I. Packer

James Innell Packer is a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the low church Anglican and Reformed traditions. He currently serves as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia...

, and is his best-known work, having sold over 1,000,000 copies in North America alone. Originally written as a series of articles for the Evangelical Magazine, it was first published as a book in 1973, and has been reprinted several times.

In the book, Packer explores the character of God

God

God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....

 as revealed in the Bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

, and correct Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

responses to it, with chapters on such topics as God's love, grace, majesty and wrath.

Chapters

• Part 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"
   • Part II: Behold Your God!
7. "God Unchanging"
8. "The Majesty of God"
9. "God Only Wise"
10. "God's Wisdom and Ours"
11. "The 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"
    • Part 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"

Editions

Year	Publisher	ISBN	Notes
1973	Inter-Varsity Press	ISBN 9780877848660
	Hodder and Stoughton	ISBN 9780877848660
1975	Hodder and Stoughton	ISBN 9780340197134
1981	Gospel Mission Press
1993	Inter-Varsity Press	ISBN 9780830816514	20th Anniversary Edition
2004	Hodder and Stoughton	ISBN 9780340863541
2005	Hodder and Stoughton	ISBN 9780340863541

Foreign-language versions

• Chinese: Ren shi shen (1979, trans. Laiwei Lin; reprinted 2004)
• Spanish: Hacia el conocimiento de Dios (1979)
• Korean: Hananim ŭl anŭn chisik (1982, trans. Kang Sŏmun; reprinted 1996)
• Russian: Poznatʹ Boga (1992, trans. Vladimir Alekseev) + Poznanie Boga (Познание Бога, trans. O.Lukmanova, 1997,2007,2009)
• French: Connaître Dieu (1994)
• Greek: Gnōrise ton Theo (1998, trans. Phrosō Dalaka)
• Estonian: Jumalat pole keegi näinud (2004, trans. Lii Tõrra)