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Portrait of D. A. Carson

D. A. Carson

(1946) Theologian

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D. A. Carson is a theologian, best known for NIV Zondervan Study Bible.

Quick Facts About D. A. Carson

Born: December 21, 1946
Profession: Theologian
Notable works: NIV Zondervan Study Bible

About D. A. Carson

Donald Arthur Carson is a Canadian evangelical theologian. He is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and president and co-founder of the Gospel Coalition. He has written or edited about sixty books and served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 2022.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by D. A. Carson · Page 2

The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on…

Articulation

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Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

Death

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How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then…

Christian

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There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

Aging

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The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human…

Approval

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I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by…

Facts

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We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

Discipline

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Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

May

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In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service…

Christian

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God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be…

Accommodations

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What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or…

Accents

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That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

Consistently

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If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

Accepting

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Christianity does not claim to convey merely religious truth, but truth about all reality. This vision of reality is radically different from…

Christianity

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To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.

Assuming

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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional…

All kinds

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A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is…

Bible

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Systematic theology will ask questions like "What are the attributes of God? What is sin? What does the cross achieve?" Biblical theology…

Achieve

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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

God

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God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

Bigs

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I suspect that relatively few people will sit down and read 1250 pages [ of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures.]…

Authority

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To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by…

Christ

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We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats,…

Accusers

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It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father,…

Crosses

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Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though…

Accepted

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D. A. Carson by topic

Bible (26) People (17) Christian (15) Scripture (14) Christianity (14) Sin (13) Love (13) Ifs (13) Crosses (13) Want (12) Way (11) Prayer (11) Life (10) Truth (9) Humans (9)