The Reverend Professor James Packer, fervent evangelical scholar who battled liberalism – obituary – Daily Telegraph August 7, 2020 by Fulcrum The Reverend Professor James Packer, who has died aged 93, was one of the 20th century’s foremost evangelical scholars; he played an important part in the revival of the evangelical movement in the Church of England during the 1960s and 1970s and went on to exert an international influence. Packer wrote more than 50 books and 250 other pieces of serious published work. Daily Telegraph Obituary. 6 August 2020 FulcrumShareTweetShare