P&R graciously gave TGC permission to host PDFs of Don Carson’s two chapters in this new book:
Richard D. Phillips and Gabriel N. E. Fluhrer, eds. These Last Days: A Christian View of History. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed, 2011.
The book publishes the spring 2010 addresses at the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology.
Here are Carson’s two chapters:
1. “This Present Evil Age” (pp. 17–37) explains Revelation 12:
- The Rage of Satan
- The Woman and Her Worthy Son
- Trial and Triumph in the Wilderness
- Gospel Sufficiency
- Christians Overcoming
- by the blood of the Lamb
- by the word of their testimony
- by not shrinking back, even from death itself
2. “Partakers of the Age to Come” (pp. 89–106) surveys Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.
- Over- and Under-Realized Eschatologies
- “over-realized eschatology”: You think that you have more of the blessings from the future now than you actually do.
- “under-realized eschatology”: You really don’t appreciate what you have in your possession.
- Partakers of the Age to Come (Eph 1:3–14)
- How Paul Prays (Eph 1:15–23)
- How God Provides
- God provides for partakers of the age to come in our utter transformation in anticipation of the end (Eph 2:1–10).
- God creates a new humanity in anticipation of the end (Eph 2:11–21).
- God provides for the partakers of the age to come in that he discloses his concealed purposes in anticipation of the end (Eph 3:1–13).
- God does more than we ask or imagine and thereby elicits prayer from us in anticipation of the end (Eph 3:14–21).
- God builds truth and unity into his body in anticipation of the end (Eph 4:1–6:9).
- God equips and arms his people in anticipation of the end (Eph 6:10–20).
And here’s the book’s table of contents:
Is there enough evidence for us to believe the Gospels?
In an age of faith deconstruction and skepticism about the Bible’s authority, it’s common to hear claims that the Gospels are unreliable propaganda. And if the Gospels are shown to be historically unreliable, the whole foundation of Christianity begins to crumble.But the Gospels are historically reliable. And the evidence for this is vast.
To learn about the evidence for the historical reliability of the four Gospels, click below to access a FREE eBook of Can We Trust the Gospels? written by New Testament scholar Peter J. Williams.
