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by: D. A. Carson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 200
EAN: 9781579108595
ISBN: 1579108598
Label: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Manufacturer: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 271
Publication Date: January 31, 2002
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Sales Rank: 458877
Studio: Wipf & Stock Publishers
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Rating:  - Tough To Wade Through But Contributes Valuably
Donald A. Carson is professor at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and a highly respected author with 45 published works to his credit. "Divine Sovereignty And Human Responsibility" is an expansion of his doctoral dissertation at Cambridge originally presented in 1975. Carson struggles with the delicate tension between God's election and man's accountability for his own sin, particularly in light of the doctrines of total depravity and original sin.
The opening page of the ... Read More
Rating: - Not the best book on the subject
What do you get when a biblical scholar writes a book on a difficult theological topic? Not a very good book. Carson attempts to explain the divine sovereignty-human responsibility tension in Scripture and early Jewish literature. He goes over the Old Testament, Apocrypha, Pseudopigrapha, DSS, and a host of other Jewish literature. According to Carson, as Judaism progressed in time human responsibility became more emphasized and merit theology began to develop (though DSS can be seen as an exception). ... Read More
Rating:  - An intellectually honest assessment of the issues
In this book (based on his dissertation) Carson surveys the literature from the time of Moses through the apostles and into the Christian era, examining attitudes toward these two topics frequently posited against each other in Christian thought: divine sovereignty, through which God ordains what will come to pass, and humans' responsibility for what they choose to do. This survey helpfully includes old and new testament biblical sources, but also deuterocanonical and other apocryphal sources, contrasting ... Read More
Rating: - Difficult, but worth it.
Wow. This book is amazing, it is actually his dissertation, so it is extremely hard going, but if you can make it through, your whole view on the tensions between God's divine sovreignty co-existing with the absolute responsibility of man for his actions will be changed.
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