Category Archives: Don Carson

Bad historiography…

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Tom Brainerd

…if it is bad historiography to squeeze two diverse accounts of one incident into a contrived union, it is equally bad historiography to mistake an instance of too little information for contradiction. D. A. Carson

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Neither systematic nor dictated…

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Tom Brainerd

In giving us this sacred book, God did not choose to provide us with a textbook of systematic theology, nor a dictated letter. D. A. Carson, Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount; ;and His Confrontation with the World, p. 122

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Lost in lesser goals…

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Tom Brainerd

The demand for genuine perfection loses itself in the lesser goal of external piety; the goal of pleasing the Father is traded for its pygmy cousin, the goal of pleasing men. Don Carson, Jesus’ Sermon the Mount and His Confrontation … Continue reading →

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You know you’re in trouble when…

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Tom Brainerd

But this is as uncontrolled a piece of allegorizing as any church father ever thought of. Don Carson Where is Origen when you need him?/THB/BHS

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You know you’re in trouble when…

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Tom Brainerd

Suggestions that what “really happened” was that the people started sharing their lunches have much more in common with late nineteenth-century liberalism than with the text. Don Carson

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Entailing hard thinking…

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Tom Brainerd

Thus, no matter how much we wish to follow Jesus seriously, we discover, sooner or later, that seriously following Jesus entails hard thinking about what he said and what he did not say. We may not come to perfect unanimity … Continue reading →

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Sovereign revealing and concealing…

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Tom Brainerd

Don Carson on Matthew 11:25-26… At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes. Even so, … Continue reading →

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Inauguration stresses…

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Tom Brainerd

…the inauguration of the kingdom brings stresses and division to a sinful world that cherishes its own self-centeredness. Don Carson.

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How often???

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Tom Brainerd

How often are we likely to meet a man on the street who would define the mission of Jesus in terms of [Matthew]10:34: “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come … Continue reading →

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A divisive Jesus…

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Tom Brainerd

The real Jesus, the authentic Jesus, the authoritative but compassionate Jesus, the Jesus who confronts the world, is quite frankly a divisive Jesus. This divisiveness is unavoidable, not only because of the unyielding truth-claims he makes for himself, but because … Continue reading →

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