D. A. Carson

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Donald Arthur Carson (born December 21, 1946) is a Canadian-born evangelical theologian and professor of New Testament.

Background and education

Carson was born in Ottawa, Canada, to Thomas Donald McMillan Carson and Elizabeth Margaret (née Maybury), but grew up in Drummondville. He earned his B.S. (1967) in chemistry and mathematics from McGill University, his M.Div. from Central Baptist Seminary (Toronto), and his Ph.D. (1975) in the New Testament from the University of Cambridge. Carson married Joy (née Wheildon) on August 16, 1975.^[]

Career

Carson served as pastor of Richmond Baptist Church in Richmond, British Columbia from 1970 to 1972. Following his doctoral studies, he served for three years at Northwest Baptist Theological College (Vancouver) and in 1976 was the founding dean of the seminary.^[] In 1978, Carson joined the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he is currently serving as research professor.

In connection with reading the Sermon on the Mount, Don Carson advises: "Start with the structure of the sermon, and thus how it fits together. My father used to tell me that a text without a context becomes a pretext for a proof text, so when I was still quite young I learned to look at the context." ("One Way (Matthew 7:13-27)", in Richard D. Phillips, editor, Only One Way?: Reaffirming the Exclusive Truth Claims of Christianity, Crossway Books, 2007, pp. 127–142, at pp. 133–134.) In Biblical criticism, a proof text is the scriptural text that proves, or is claimed to prove, a particular doctrine. As a result of frequent overuse and occasional abuse of proof texts, the term has acquired a negative and sometimes even pejorative connotation.

Carson has quoted this adage in his lectures for several decades, before it gained popularity as a result of being quoted out of context by Jesse Jackson: "Text, without context, is pretext." (Sheldon R. Gawiser & G. Evans Witt, A Journalist's Guide to Public Opinion Polls, Praeger, 1994, p. 111.)

Selected publications

Carson has written or edited 57 books, many of which have been translated into Chinese.^[] These include major commentaries on Matthew in the Expositor's Bible Commentary (ISBN 0310499615) and John (ISBN 085111749X), commentaries on parts of the Bible, such as 1 Corinthians 12-14 (ISBN 0801025214) and the Sermon on the Mount (ISBN 0801024803). He has also written books on prayer, suffering, and free will and predestination from a generally compatibilist and Calvinist perspective.

His 1996 book The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism (ISBN 031024286X) won the 1997 ECPA Christian Book Award for the "theology and doctrine" category.^[]

Other publications include:

The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism (1979) ISBN 0801024277
Exegetical Fallacies (1984) ISBN 0801024994
How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil (1990, 2006) ISBN 0801031257
The Cross and Christian Ministry: Leadership Lessons from 1 Corinthians (1993, 2004) ISBN 0801091683
The Inclusive Language Debate: A Plea for Realism (1998) ISBN 0851115845
The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God (1999) ISBN 1581341261
For the Love of God, 2 volume devotional commentary based on Robert Murray M'Cheyne's system for reading the Bible through in one year (1998, 2006) ISBN 1581348150
Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and Its Implications (2005) ISBN 0310259479
Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns (2000, 2002)
Justification And Variegated Nomism, 2 volumes which deal with the New Perspective on Paul issues that have arisen in recent years from people such as N. T. Wright (2001, 2004) ISBN 0801027926
Christ and Culture Revisited (2008) ISBN 0802831745
Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, Editor, along with Beale, G. K.. (2008) ISBN 0-80-102693-8
Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson (2008) ISBN 1433501996

References

External links

Trinity's page on Dr. Don Carson
D. A. Carson (Theopedia)
Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals Carson is a member of the Alliance's Council.
The Debate Over Gender-Inclusive Language

Audio collections:

The Gospel Coalition collection -- Includes biographical information, list of publications, and sermons & lectures.
Collection of links to Carson MP3s (compiled by PJ Tibayan).
Collection of links to Carson MP3s (compiled by Andy Naselli)
European Leadership Forum collection

The King James Version 2023 Edition New Testament is now complete and in print format here.

Internal Links

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Marginal Notes in the 1611 Authorized Version

Ephesians 3:9

Why We Should Not Passover Easter 1, 2, & 3

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List of TR/KJV based foreign bibles

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