“Right now, the Christian faith is exploding in majority world places such as South America, China, and Africa. People are converting because they’ve discovered the freedom, rights, and love that come from knowing and following Jesus. They are not finding Christianity to be a tool of oppression and hate. The opposite is true. They experience it as a tool of liberation, justice, and love. The point is that if we’re thinking that Christianity is a tool of oppression, then maybe we’ve been reading the Bible with a specific lens, a postmodern Western lens, for too long. Or maybe we’ve been hanging around the wrong Christians.”
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Donald Arthur Carson is a Canadian-born evangelical theologian and professor of New Testament.
Carson served as pastor of Richmond Baptist Church in Richmond, British Columbia from 1970 to 1972. Following his doctoral studies, he served for three years at Northwest Baptist Theological College (Vancouver) and in 1976 was the founding dean of the seminary. In 1978, Carson joined the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he is currently serving as research professor.
Carson has written or edited 57 books, many of which have been translated into Chinese.