Andy Naselli

Thoughts on Theology

D. A. Carson

The God Who Is There

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Coming this July:

D. A. Carson. The God Who Is There: Finding Your Place in God’s Story. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2010.

  • Leader’s Guide:
  • The chapters correspond to Carson’s fourteen-part overview of the Bible that he presented to Bethlehem Baptist Church in February 2009.
  1. The God Who Made Everything
  2. The God Who Does Not Wipe Out Rebels
  3. The God Who Writes His Own Agreements
  4. The God Who Legislates
  5. The God Who Reigns
  6. The God Who Is Unfathomably Wise
  7. The God Who Becomes a Human Being
  8. The God Who Grants New Birth
  9. The God Who Loves
  10. The God Who Dies—and Lives Again
  11. The God Who Declares the Guilty Just
  12. The God Who Gathers and Transforms His People
  13. The God Who Is Very Angry
  14. The God Who Triumphs

This resource will serve the church well because it simultaneously evangelizes non-Christians and edifies Christians by explaining the Bible’s storyline.

Update on July 29, 2010: Audio and video are available.

Related:

Carson on the Trials of Biblical Studies

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In The Trials of Theology: Becoming a “Proven Worker” in a Dangerous Business (ed. Andrew J. B. Cameron and Brian S. Rosner; Fearn, Scotland: Christian Focus, 2010), D. A. Carson contributes a chapter entitled “The Trials of Biblical Studies” (pp. 109–29).

Subject Index for Carson and Woodbridge’s Letters Along the Way

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Many thanks to Matthew Hoskinson for serving us by preparing a two-page subject index to this book:

D. A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge. Letters Along the Way: A Novel of the Christian Life. Wheaton: Crossway, 1993.

More info:

Take a moment to scan the subject index, and don’t be surprised if it makes you want to read the book.

Book about the Bible : Bible :: Sandcastle : Matterhorn

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“Writing a book about the Bible is like building a sandcastle in front of the Matterhorn.”

That arresting analogy is the opening line to N. T. Wright’s The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture. (Incidentally, it’s not the best sandcastle. Watch D. A. Carson knock it over [pp. 45–62].)

How the Bible Is Like a Jigsaw Puzzle

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D. A. Carson, “Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: The Possibility of Systematic Theology,” in Scripture and Truth (ed. D. A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1983), 81–82:

A 5,000-piece puzzle of “Neuschwanstein and Surroundings”

I am not saying that the Bible is like a jigsaw puzzle of five thousand pieces and that all the five thousand pieces are provided, so that with time and thought the entire picture may be completed. Rather, I am suggesting that the Bible is like a jigsaw puzzle that provides five thousand pieces along with the assurance that these pieces all belong to the same puzzle, even though ninety-five thousand pieces (the relative figures are unimportant for my analogy) are missing. Most of the pieces that are provided, the instructions insist, fit together rather nicely; but there are a lot of gaping holes, a lot of edges that cry out to be completed, and some clusters of pieces that seem to be on their own. Nevertheless, the assurance that all of the pieces do belong to one puzzle is helpful, for that makes it possible to develop the systematic theology, even though the systematic theology is not going to be completed until we receive more pieces from the One who made it. And meanwhile, even some systematicians who believe that all the pieces belong to the same puzzle are not very adept puzzle players but sometimes force pieces into slots where they don’t really belong. The picture gets distorted somewhat, but it remains basically recognizable.

Introducing the New Testament

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This book should be available in about one month (click the image to enlarge the back cover, spine, and front cover):

Introducing the New Testament

Introducing the New Testament: A Short Guide to Its History and Message. By D. A. Carson and Douglas J. Moo. Edited by Andrew David Naselli. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010.

Carson on Scripture

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Coming July 2010:

D. A. Carson. Collected Writings on Scripture. Compiled by Andrew David Naselli. Wheaton: Crossway, 2010.

It reprints and slightly updates five essays and five reviews:

  1. Approaching the Bible
  2. Recent Developments in the Doctrine of Scripture
  3. Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: The Possibility of Systematic Theology
  4. Redaction Criticism: On the Legitimacy and Illegitimacy of a Literary Tool
  5. Is the Doctrine of Claritas Scripturae Still Relevant Today?
  6. Three Books on the Bible: A Critical Review
  7. Three More Books on the Bible: A Critical Review
  8. Review of Jeffrey L. Sheler, Is the Bible True?
  9. Review of Alan G. Padgett and Patrick R. Keifert, eds., But Is It All True?
  10. Review of Roland Boer, Rescuing the Bible

Dr. Carson invited me to compile these essays and work with Crossway to publish them.