D.A. Carson’s Christ and Culture Revisited is now available. This is one you’ll definitely want to pick up. In the preface he provides a helpful summary of the book:
My own effort in this book begins by summarizing Niebuhr, since Niebuhr has become an icon to which everyone refers, though few today still read him [...]

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By D. A. Carson
Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, Inc.
Hermeneutics is the art and science of interpretation; biblical hermeneutics is the art and science of interpreting the Bible. At the time of the Reformation, debates over interpretation played an enormously important role. These were debates over interpretation, not just over interpretations. In other words, the Reformers disagreed [...]

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Dr. Daniel Akin, president of Southestern Baptist Theological Seminary, provides the following article for SBC Life (April 2006) discussing how Southern Baptists should respond to the relationship between divine sovereignty and human responsibilty.
Although this article is addressed to ‘Southern Baptists’ I find it relevant for all Christian denominations.
Dr. Akin concludes the article with an excerpt [...]

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Carson recently spoke @ the Castle in Ireland looking at the Gospel message, it’s most important components, and how it’s been distorted and corrupted today by many sectors of the church.
What is the Gospel (1Cor 15:1-19) Duration 1:09:29
Question and Answer Session Duration 00:21:02

1Cor 15:1-19
The Resurrection of Christ
15:1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the [...]

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The following audio features D.A. Carson speaking on the topic of “Is the Emergent Church Biblical” at the Henry Center on 9/21/2005.
Henry Center MP3. (Original Source)
Internet Archive MP3.

About the Henry Center:
Theologians often comment on the low levels of Christian literacy in our pews as well as our pulpits. Likewise, ministry leaders complain about the irrelevance [...]

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An edited manuscript of D. A. Carson’s “The Gospel of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:1-19)” is now available at The Gospel Coalition site. Carson preached this message in May at The Gospel Coalition’s first conference: video | audio.
Other resources at TGC site: articles (including an RSS feed for new articles), audio & video (including [...]

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From Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed Blog, we find this sympathetic assessment of the Emergent Doug Pagitt and his church, Solomon’s Porch.

I’m up here in Seattle, and Doug Pagitt’s heart-felt record of his church’s, Solomon’s Porch, work, called Reimagining Spiritual Formation, which for many Emergent folk is “old hat,” was a wondrous read and gave me [...]

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