One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most โevangelisticโ movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.
D. A. CarsonSome have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture.
D. A. CarsonThere is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
D. A. CarsonThe broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
D. A. CarsonIt's better to emphasize biblical theology, partly because there are fine Study Bibles already available that lean into systematic theology, and partly because biblical theology is particularly strong at helping readers see how the Bible hangs together in its own categories: that is, God in his infinite wisdom chose to give us his Word in the 66 canonical books, with all of their variations in theme, emphasis, vocabulary, literary form, and distinctive contributions across time.
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