D. A. Carson
D. A. Carson
Donald Arthur Carsonis a Canadian-born, Reformed Evangelical theologian and professor of the New Testament...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth21 December 1946
CountryCanada
crush tolerance culture
One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.
prayer self our-world
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
writing people awkward
So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
religious heart reality
Christianity does not claim to convey merely religious truth, but truth about all reality. This vision of reality is radically different from a secularist vision that wants Christianity to scuttle into the corner of the hearth by the coal shovel, conveniently out of the way of anything but private religious concerns
hell damn dichotomy
Damn all false dichotomies to hell
treasure sin horror
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
love-is emotional wrath
God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved. Thus there is nothing intrinsically impossible about wrath and love being directed toward the same individual or people at the same time. God in his perfections must be wrathful against his rebel image-bearers, for they have offended him; God in his perfections must be loving toward his rebel image-bearers, for he is that kind of God
may absolutism heroic
Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
love pain teaching
For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
suffering way god-knows
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
long suffering matter
The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.
christian understanding scripture
Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture.
trying worship excellent
You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
faith religious suffering
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?