More than 350 friends and admirers of J.I. Packer celebrated the famed theologian, writer and scholar’s 80th year during a conference sponsored by Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School Sept. 25–27. As participants from 19 states and Canada honored Packer’s decades as a "theologizer," they also considered the current and future status of evangelicalism. Packer is the author of the modern…