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Donald A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has been at Trinity since 1978.
Carson came to Trinity from the faculty of Northwest Baptist Theological Seminary in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he also served for two years as academic dean. He has served as assistant pastor and pastor and has done itinerant ministry in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Carson received the Bachelor of Science in chemistry from McGill University, the Master of Divinity from Central Baptist Seminary in Toronto, and the Doctor of Philosophy in New Testament from the University of Cambridge.
Carson has written or edited over forty-five books, including The Sermon on the Mount (Baker, 1978), Exegetical Fallacies (Baker, 1984), Matthew (Zondervan, 1984), From Triumphalism to Maturity (Baker, 1984), Showing the Spirit (Baker, 1987), How Long, O Lord? Reflections on Suffering and Evil (Baker, 1990), The Gospel According to John (Eerdmans, 1991), A Call to Spiritual Reformation (Baker, 1992), and New Testament Commentary Survey (Baker, 1993). His book The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism (Zondervan, 1996) won the 1997 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Award in the category “theology and doctrine.” He coauthored An Introduction to the New Testament (Zondervan, 1991) and other works. His edited works include It Is Written: Scripture Citing Scripture (Cambridge University Press, 1988) and Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics (Sheffield Academic Press, 1993). Carson occasionally writes and edits with faculty colleague John Wood-bridge; together they wrote the novel Letters Along the Way (Crossway, 1993) and edited Scripture and Truth (Baker, 1992) and God and Culture (Eerdmans, 1993).
Carson was founding chair of The GRAMCORD Institute, a research and educational institution designed to develop and promote computer-related tools for Bible research, focusing especially on the original languages. Carson is an active guest lecturer in academic and church settings around the world.
Carson and his wife, Joy, reside in Libertyville, Illinois. They have two children. In his spare time, Carson enjoys reading, hiking, and woodworking.