Donald A. (D.A.) Carson is an evangelical Christian scholar. Evangelicalism usually refers to a more conservative Protestantism focused on witnessing and conversion, personal faith testimony, and a generally more conservative view of the Bible. ...

He is currently a research professor of the New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, which is based in Deerfield, Illinois, USA. The New Testament, sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures is the name given to the part of the Christian Bible that was written after the birth of Jesus. ... Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) is a leading evangelical Christian seminary in Deerfield, Illinois. ... Deerfield, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Carson's academic qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy in the New Testament from Cambridge University. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... The New Testament, sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures is the name given to the part of the Christian Bible that was written after the birth of Jesus. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

Dr. Carson has written or edited more than 45 books, including commentaries on parts of the Bible, including the Sermon on the Mount, (chapters 5-7 of the Gospel of Matthew) and the Gospel of John, and books on prayer, and suffering. His book, The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism (Zondervan 1996), won the 1997 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Book Award in the category "theology and doctrine." He has written books on free will and predestination from a generally compatibilist and Calvinist persepective. The Sermon on the Mount was, according to the Gospel of Matthew, a particular sermon given by Jesus of Nazareth around 30 CE on a mountainside to his disciples and a large crowd (Matt. ... The Gospel of Matthew (literally: according to Matthew, Grk: kata Maththaion) is one of the four Gospel accounts of the New Testament. ... The Gospel of John is the fourth gospel in the sequence of the canon as printed in the New Testament, and scholars agree it was the fourth to be written. ... Prayer is an effort to communicate with God, or to some deity or deities, or another form of spiritual entity, or otherwise, either to offer praise, to make a request, or simply to express ones thoughts and emotions. ... Zondervan is a publishing company owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) is an international non-profit organization promoting excellence among Christian publishers. ... The Gold Medallion Book Award is given by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association to honor works relating to Christianity. ... Free will is the philosophical doctrine that holds that our choices are ultimately up to ourselves. ... Predestination is a religious idea, under which the relationship between the beginning of things and the destiny of things is discussed. ... Compatibilism, also known as soft determinism and most famously championed by Hume, is a theory which holds that free will and determinism are compatible. ... In an unadorned church, the 17th century congregation stands to hear the sermon. ...

Don Carson is also a speaker at many Christian conferences. The term conference can be used to describe any meeting of people that confer about a certain topic. ...

External Links

• Trinity's page on Dr. Don Carson
• Amazon's list of books by D.A. Carson
• Christway Media -- includes sermons, Don Carson's iternary,