Don Carson

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Donald Arthur (D. A.) Carson is an evangelical Christian scholar. He is currently a research professor of the New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, which is based in Deerfield, Illinois, USA.

Carson's academic qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from McGill University and a Doctor of Philosophy in the New Testament from the University of Cambridge.

Don Carson is also a speaker at many Christian conferences.

[edit] Books written or edited by Don Carson

Carson has written or edited more than 45 books. These include major commentaries on Matthew and John, commentaries on parts of the Bible, such as Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12-14, and works on the Sermon on the Mount, (chapters 5-7 of the Gospel of Matthew) and the Gospel of John. He has also written books on prayer, and suffering. He has written books on free will and predestination from a generally compatibilist and Calvinist perspective.

His book, The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism (Zondervan 1996), won the 1997 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Book Award in the category "theology and doctrine."

Other books by Don Carson include:

The Cross and Christian Ministry: Leadership Lessons from 1 Corinthians, 1993 - an exegesis of 1 Corinthians focusing on leadership

How Long, O Lord?, 2006 - Biblical guide on suffering

Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church - a critique of the Emerging Church

Telling the Truth - an analysis of the relationship between Christianity and postmodernism

The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism, 1979

Exegetical Fallacies

The Inclusive Language Debate: a plea for realism

The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God

For the Love of God (a 2 volume devotional commentary, based on Robert Murray M'Cheyne's system for reading the bible through in one year)

Justification And Variegated Nomism: The Paradoxes Of Paul (Carson edited this text, which deals with the New Perspective on Paul issues that have arisen in recent years from people such as N. T. Wright)