Mark Dever speaks at J.I. Packer's 80th Birthday

Mark Dever was one of the speakers at the recent Beeson Divinity School conference entitled "J. I. Packer and the Evangelical Future." The conference took place on the occasion of J.I. Packer's 80th Birthday. As reported by Ligon Duncan, Dever "bravely and kindly expressed his concerns about Packer's endorsement of ECT [Evangelicals and Catholics Together], and gave the best presentation on Packer, justification and ECT that I've ever read." Apparently, there is a conference book forthcoming which will contain Dever's address.

Also present at the conference were Chuck Colson, Bruce Hindmarsh, Edith Humphrey, Richard John Neuhaus, James Earl Massey, and Beeson's own Timothy George. John Wilson of Christianity Today provides this report of the event.