D. A. Carson
D. A. Carson | |
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| Born | Donald Arthur Carson December 21, 1946 |
| Spouse |
Joy Wheildon (m. 1975) |
| Ecclesiastical career | |
| Religion | Christianity (Baptist) |
| Ordained | 1972 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | McGill University (BS) Central Baptist Seminary (MDiv) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Thesis | Predestination and Responsibility (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Barnabas Lindars |
| Influences | Cornelius Van Til |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | |
| Sub-discipline | |
| School or tradition | |
| Institutions | Trinity Evangelical Divinity School |
| Doctoral students | Andreas J. Köstenberger |
Donald Arthur Carson (born December 21, 1946) 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 (or more) and served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 2022.
Carson has been described as doing "the most seminal New Testament work by contemporary evangelicals" and as "one of the last great Renaissance men in evangelical biblical scholarship." He has written on a wide range of topics including New Testament, hermeneutics, biblical theology, the Greek New Testament, the use of the Old Testament in the New, and more.