Category: D.A. Carson

D.A. Carson Defines ‘Inerrancy’

There is a interesting new website called The Ehrman Project (ehrmanproject.com). It has been designed to engage the popular scholarship of Bart D. Ehrman in the public arena where he has gained so much notoriety. One of the videos that has been posted is one of D.A. Carson defining inerrancy. The definition given is this: “Inerrancy is merely a way of saying that wherever there is a truth claim in fact God’s words are true.” There is much more said to give it context so I recommend hearing all that Carson says.

Watch the video and let me know what you think of Carson’s answer. Also, make sure you visit The Ehrman Project for more interesting videos. I think it is a promising resource.

Classes for the Fall 2010

I will be taking the following courses this September 2010, at least that’s when I’ll be officially enrolled. Since I am doing my courses on-line at KEDS I can actually get started now. In preparation for the 3 courses that I will be taking I went out and purchased some of the required and optional textbooks needed.  Some I already had, I may buy others as I go through the class, as one of my goal is to continue growing my library.  I have decided for now to not buy any of these for the iPad, but rather good old traditional books.  Until the iPad, (this includes app developers) makes certain enhancements (i.e. remove certain restrictions “copy/paste”) I cannot rely on it for academic study.  The only exception was the Old Testament survey, I had already purchased it for the iPad.

  1. Old Testament Survey
    1. Required: Longman, Tremper, An Introduction to the Old Testament. 2nd ed. Nottingham: Apollos, 2007 (iBooks)
    2. Optional:
      1. Fee, Gordon D. and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for all Its Worth. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, Mich: Zondervan Publishing House, 2003 (already own)
      2. Bromiley, Geoffrey, W. (ed.), International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (already own)
  2. New Testament Survey
    1. Required: D. A. Carson, Douglas Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, 2nd ed., Grand Rapids:Zondervan, 2005 (already own)
    2. Optional:
      1. Douglas Moo, The Epistle to the Romans. New International Commentary on the
        New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996
      2. Anthony C. Thiselton, The First Epistle to the Cornithians, The New International Greek Testament Commentary,  Eerdmans, 2000
  3. The Synoptic Gospels
    1. Required: Donald Guthrie, New Testament Introduction, IVP 1990
      1. Optional: Joel B. Green, Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, IVP 1992

I am just about done and ready to submit my paper for the “Introduction to the Bible” course, but I bought one more book.  I want to do further research on the subject of inerrancy, so I bought “Donald G. Bloesch, Holy Scriptures, Christian Foundations, IVP 1994.  Also I did a good thing and bought these at my local Christian Academic Book Store, “In Christ Books“.  Amazon gets enough of my money.

Books I Will Be Reading for Class

For one of the classes I will be taking the professor is allowing us access to the manuscript of a book that he has written that will be published soon. For the other class I will be reading the professor’s exegetical notes on the epistles to Rome and Galatia. The other three books that I have as mandatory reading include the following:

Carson, D. A., et. al. Justification and Variegated Nomism. Vol. 2: The Paradoxes of Paul. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004.

Evans, Craig A. Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels. Downers Grove: IVP, 2006.

Waters, Guy Prentiss. Justification and the New Perspectives on Paul: A Review and Response. Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing, 2004.