Donald A. Carson

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Donald Arthur Carson (born December 21, 1946 in Montreal ) is a Canadian Calvinist theologian and professor of New Testament at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield near Chicago .

Life

Carson is a son of Pastor Thomas Donald McMillan Carson and Bible teacher Elizabeth Margaret Maybury. He grew up in Drummondville , Canada , he attended McGill University in Montreal and made his bachelor's degree in chemistry and mathematics in 1967 . He studied at Central Baptist Seminary in Toronto , where he received his Masters in Theology.

Act

Carson served as a pastor at the Richmond Baptist Church in Richmond , British Columbia from 1970–1972 . He received his doctorate in the New Testament in 1975 from the University of Cambridge , his doctoral thesis was supervised by Barnabas Lindar . After receiving his doctorate, he attended Northwest Baptist Theological College in Vancouver for three years , and in 1976 he was the seminary's founding dean. In 1978 Carson became a faculty member at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, near Chicago, where he is a research professor. Every third year is dedicated to research and publication. He is a New Testament scientist who wants to look at the Bible as a whole and has also introduced some new methods. As a pastor he takes care of the practical consequences of his biblical-theological teaching, and as a writer he cultivates a clear and understandable style.

In 2005 Carson founded The Gospel Coalition TGC (German: Die Evangeliumskoalition ) together with the New York pastor Timothy Keller . Its aim is to better network evangelical churches and to strengthen them in their common appearance. 55 well-known American pastors such as Erwin Lutzer and John Piper are represented on the board , most of whom have a Calvinist background. A better collaboration is strived for by means of a website, conferences, publications, projects and initiatives, and a dedicated website was launched in 2007.

Carson also spoke about the Old Testament book of Nehemiah and the effects of the Reformation at the 2012 Hong Kong Bible Conference .

Private

Carson has been married to Joy Wheildon since 1975, they have two children and live in Libertyville near Chicago.

Teaching

  • The gospel of Jesus Christ is central to what Carson speaks and passionately teaches frequently
  • Everything begins with the sovereign God, only then does the word of God come ; without God we can not trust the scriptural interpretation because people are flawed by the fall and limited by culture
  • The Bible is the special revelation of God, which is reliable and in error free in the original text . The interpretation must also be seen in the context of biblical, historical and systematic theology
  • Cultural criticism : Carson criticizes today's postmodern philosophy with its intolerant tolerance , which has negative effects. He compares the modern and the postmodern with a mother and an illegitimate child who later devoured his mother. He is also rather skeptical about the emerging church as a Christian answer to postmodern culture and justifies this in his book: Emerging Church
  • Pastoral Teaching Service: Carson is a versatile, thorough, and differentiated teacher; in his teaching he draws clear conclusions and conclusions and also expects effects from his listeners

Works

Fonts

As a research professor, Carson is very productive and has written over sixty books and 250 theological articles, which have also been translated into other languages, especially Chinese. He edited Bible commentaries and wrote on the Gospel of Matthew , John's Gospel and parts of 1 Corinthians . As a Calvinist theologian, he has written other books on various subjects such as prayer , suffering , free will and predestination . His book The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism. ( The muzzled God: Christianity versus pluralism. 1996. ISBN 031024286X ) won the 1997 ECPA Christian Book Award for the theology and teaching category . The following works have been published in German:

  • Stumbling blocks of scripture interpretation. How to use the Bible carefully and correctly. Betanien, Oerlinghausen 2007. 2nd edition 2011. ISBN 978-3-93555-879-2
  • The emerging church. Farewell to biblical teaching? Christian literature distribution, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89397-989-9
  • Oh Lord, how much longer? Thoughts about suffering and other needs. Esras.net 2nd edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-90589-900-9
  • With Douglas J. Moo : Introduction to the New Testament. Brunnen, Gießen 2010, ISBN 978-3-76559-541-7 (Original title: An Introduction to the New Testament )
  • Learn to Pray. Spiritual renewal through prayer. 3L, Waldems 2012
  • The intolerant tolerance. 3L, Waldems 2014, ISBN 978-3-941988-56-9

Audio

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after Paul Ellingworth in Evangelical Quarterly 64, 1992, p. 361
  2. ^ Carson on the homepage of the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School ( Memento from July 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Website The Gospel Coalition TGC
  4. ↑ Short biography of Donald A. Carson ( memento from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on esras.net
  5. ^ Carson: Emerging Church , pp. 32-33
  6. ^ Carson at www.theoblog.de
  7. ↑ Report on Carson on www.zeltmacher.eu
personal data
SURNAME Carson, Donald A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carson, Donald Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian Calvinist theologian, Deerfield New Testament scholar, and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Drummondville, Montreal, Canada