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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries.\nDespite the fact that the widely esteemed theologian J. I. Packer\xa0never lived in the United States, the theologian greatly influenced American evangelicals. One key way this transpired occurred through Packer\u2019s longstanding relationship with Christianity Today.\nPacker\u2019s first piece\u2014a lengthy article on the opportunity and challenges for evangelicalism\u2014was published in 1958. After the publication of his best-known work, Knowing God, he became contributing editor at Christianity Today in 1983 and then senior editor in 1985. He continued to serve the magazine in similar roles for the next three decades. In 1992, he wrote about how he envisaged his relationship with the publication:\nOne role of CT, which is a features-news-and-thought journal anchored in the historic faith, is to keep you posted, one way and another, on the theological front. I suppose I should see myself as a kind of point man for this purpose.\nBut most of all, I want to be a plumber and sewage man, as I said when I started, and most of all, I want CT always to be showing how head and heart should be joining in mature discipleship today. Head-without-heart journals and heart-without-head journals make for misshapen and underdeveloped Christians. It is important that we should find and follow the better way.\nTimothy George, distinguished professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, was a contemporary of Packer\u2019s at CT.\xa0\n\u201cI would say his role at CT was a mentor to the whole enterprise, especially to all the editors,\u201d said George. \u201cFor me and others that worked with him constantly in those days, we respected him and looked to him as someone who was a pioneer in the very thing that we were giving our lives to.\u201d\nGeorge joined global media manager Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen to discuss Packer\u2019s CT legacy, the controversy he sparked over his convictions of the Bible\u2019s inerrancy, and who is following in his footsteps today.\xa0\nTake Quick to Listen\u2019s survey!\nRead our JI Packer coverage\nWhat is Quick to Listen? Read more \nRate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts \nFollow the podcast on Twitter \nFollow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen \nMusic by Sweeps \nQuick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder \nThe transcript is edited by Bunmi Ishola\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices