James packer biography
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James Packer
Australian businessman
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The Price of Fortune - The untold story of being James Packer
The biography of James Packer.
James Packer turns to Greek mythology in an attempt to explain the most exciting yet tumultuous period of his 50 years on earth.
I was like Icarus, the billionaire tells his biographer, journalist Damon Kitney, of the heady days of when he broke up with pop star Mariah Carey, abandoned living in Hollywood and Israel, left the global casino stage, and divided the family fortune in a bitter separation from his sister.
I flew too close to the sun.
With these words, Packer delves for the first time into the story behind his stunning public revelation in mid-March of his battle with mental health issues, which forced him to resign from the board of the Crown casino company he owns and loves.
Never before has a member of the Packer family co-operated with a writer to tell their story. In his biography, The Price of Fortune, one of the nation&#;s richest and most psychoanalysed men opens up in an attempt to make sense of his rollercoaster life and to tell the human story of being James Douglas Packer. Of how his wealth, charm and intellect took him to such exciting places. Yet how sometimes trusting the wrong people and his own rash actions cost him money, friendships, his health and bu
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J. I. Packer
For the Australian media tycoon, see James Packer.
English-born Canadian evangelical theologian (–)
James Innell Packer (22 July &#;&#; 17 July ) was an English-born Canadianevangelical theologian, cleric and writer in the low-church Anglican and Calvinist traditions. Having been considered as one of the most influential evangelicals in North America,[5] Packer is known for his best-selling book Knowing God, along with his work as the general editor of the English Standard Version Bible. He was one of the high-profile signers on the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, a member on the advisory board of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and also was involved in the ecumenical book Evangelicals and Catholics Together in His last teaching position was as the board of governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, in which he served from until his retirement in due to failing eyesight.
Life and career
[edit]Packer was born on 22 July in Twyning, Gloucestershire, England to James and Dorothy Packer.[6][7] His sister, Margaret, was born in [7] His father was a clerk for the Great Western Railway and his lower-middle-class family was only nominally Anglican, a