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Anne Carson, author of approximately sixteen books of poetry, essays, and translation (the precise number depends on how you count her several collaborations), is to a certain segment of the population a major celebrity. Originally from Canada, Carson has lived for many years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she teaches classics and comparative literature at the university. Her erudite, unconventional, yet highly relatable brand of writing has won her a Guggenheim fellowship and a MacArthur Genius grant, among other prestigious prizes.
Book: Short Talks (1992)
Hook: Some fathers hate to read but love to take the family on trips. Some children hate trips but love to read. Funny how often these find themselves passengers in the same automobile.
How it will consume you: Microlectures on a variety of topics (for example, Sylvia Plath, housing, why some people find trains exciting, defloration, and the sensation of airplane take-off). The tone is pleasantly instructional without ever lapsing into anything quite so boring as logic. The talks are as accessible as an audio tour of a museum, and about twelve times as entertaining.
*Note that a number of books are missing from this list, including Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay; Glass, Irony and God; Economy of the Unlost; The Beauty of the Husband; Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides; An Oresteia; Antigonick; and If Not, Winter. This is a concession to time and space, rather than the expression of any sort of grudge. In order to read them, you will have to rely on one of the other methods.
Although it contains very few words, none of them the obvious choices, it manages to convey a clear picture of ocean waves breaking and a person trying to swim, perhaps against them, perhaps unsuccessfully. The end stops are the troughs between waves, also known as the space in which a person lurches between unexpressed emotions.
Don Carson discusses various aspects of book writing and theological studies. He reflects on the process of writing both academic and more accessible texts, the importance of context in systematic theology, and his views on exegetical rigor in modern theological works. Carson also explores his own projects and contributions to the field, including his thoughts on writing commentaries and the challenge of balancing scholarly depth with accessibility for a wider audience.
Don: That too, for example. The amount of space I give in my commentaries to where the New Testament quotes the Old is all a reflection of that, but that to my mind is still prolegomenon to a full-bore systematics.
Don: Yeah, Bavinck is a much better model. One of the people who really could do it is someone like Henri Blocher because he really does have this mix of exegetical rigor and knowledge of historical theology across a surprisingly broad plane.
Mark: So basically, if you were being really candid right now, you would trash most systematic theologies that people sit around using in evangelical seminaries, as far as their exegetical abilities.
Mark: But realize how inaccessible they are to most people, and you put a ton of work into those. It would be very easy for you or even to let somebody else just put those together, and people would go buy them because you wrote them, not because of particular topics, especially if you put a united Scripture index in the back and a topic index. Those could be extremely useful volumes. Just saying.
Don: Yes, and that there are ways of working that out pastorally, theologically, in the lives of Christians, and that John is different from Second Temple Judaism in that regard. In this respect, he is harking back to the main streams of Old Testament theology updated in a Christological framework now that Jesus has actually appeared.
Don: In many, many ways. I could tell you a lot of stories here. He was brought up very, very high Anglican. He was about as Roman Catholic as you could be without being Roman Catholic. In his late 30s, he underwent a huge shift and became very liberal in his theology while still maintaining all the sacerdotalism.
Don: Well, I thought he was in some ways. I had a category for Roman Catholics and a category for liberals, but how do you become a liberal traditionalist? How do you become liberal in your basic structure of understanding of the biblical documents while still having an almost Tridentine view of the sacraments? From my point of view, it was almost bizarre. We did have some long, long conversations on those things together eventually.
Mark: What did he think of your dissertation? I know he passed it and probably said good things academically, but that you actually believed this was true and that you were going to do this much work on this topic.
Don: Of course. There are all kinds of things in those two volumes that are perennial and are still being asked and talked about today. Nevertheless, there is a feel of datedness to them for people who know literature, and that needs to be handled.
The way we did it was I set out the frame of each project and assigned papers, which then came in to me, and I circulated them. This is before email, so it was all done with photocopies. Then we all went to Cambridge for a whole week and worked through all of the papers together.
Mark: Along with Exegetical Fallacies, a book I think is a must for pastors is your little New Testament Commentary Survey, currently in its sixth edition. It feels like you do one every other year almost.
Mark: I remember, whenever you gave it, you giving those talks at the CICCU. I attended them, and I think I can honestly say in 30 years of watching things, I have never seen a series of sermons have such an immediate and lasting impact. The way the students prayed publicly changed from your first address. They began praying in scriptural concerns, in scriptural phrases. The sort of undisciplined, all kinds of made-up weird stuff vanished.
Don: Well, just the book. The book came from it. We decided not to make this an annual event. It was a hugely fruitful time. You came and spoke on the nature of sin. I thought it was a good conference.
Mark: Back to the more academic side of things, in 2001 and 2004 you came out with two edited volumes, Justification and Variegated Nomism, in which you basically tried to out-complexify the new perspective folks. Very clever academic move.
Mark: Last year, 2007, you and Greg published the thing you just mentioned a few moments ago, your gigantic Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. I love it. I have used parts of it. Like we were saying, the index at the back makes it so useful.
Mark: But somebody had to have the idea and make it happen, so thank you for that. This year you came out with two very different books: Christ and Culture Revisited and Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor.
Most of his life he preached to vast crowds of 30. He never wrote a book, he never preached at a national conference, he never served overseas, but he got so many of the basics right in terms of faithfulness and right priorities and concern for evangelism. He lived in very hard times. He nursed his wife, my mother, through the Alzheimer years.
Don Carson (BS, McGill University, MDiv, Central Baptist Seminary, Toronto, PhD, University of Cambridge) is emeritus professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and cofounder and theologian-at-large of The Gospel Coalition. He has edited and authored numerous books. He and his wife, Joy, have two children.
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Dr. Benjamin S. Carson has served as the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, a candidate for President of the United States, and the seventeenth Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He currently serves as the founder and chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute. He is also the author of six bestselling books: Gifted Hands, Think Big, The Big Picture, One Nation, A More Perfect Union, and Created Equal, the last four of which he coauthored with his wife, Candy. They are the parents of three grown sons and grandparents to eight grandchildren. They live in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
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