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Title: Gagging of God, The by D. A. Carson ISBN: 0-310-24286-X Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.79 (14 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The book is helpful but tries too hard to do too much.
Comment: Carson is one of evangelicalism's premier NT scholars and commentary writers, but his effort here leaves me feeling ambivalent. Carson wants the reader (presumedly a very patient evangelical laymen) to wade through 600 pages of his various musings on topics which concern him all lumped under the rubric of pluralism (much of the book is drawn from prior articles and its patchwork structure shows through). Much is helpful, and Carson is always insightful and careful in his analysis. However, his prose not too clean, and he tries to interact with far too much material for just one book (it could have been 3 or 4 books!). Carson's basic premise is that Christians must resist pluralism by emphasizing biblical theology (the story of the authoritative Scripture from creation to consummation). He covers so much ground, often in some depth, that one is bogged down by many needless tangents (and footnotes). Much of the detail is not necessary for his purpose. In fact, most of the material in part 2 of the book could be summarized in a single 50 pages chapter, rather than rambling on for nearly 300 pages! If this book is ever revised, I suggest that it be reduced at least by 1/2, that his prose be cleaned up, and that he change the horrible title. It is hardly helpful to begin dialogue with a non-Christian pluralist by accusing them of gagging God! Where exactly does he think the conversation will go from there?
Rating: 5
Summary: Title misunderstood
Comment: An earlier reviewer claims that Carson should change the so-called offensive title of this book. It is intended to offend, but the reviewer who said this doesn't seem to have bothered to read the preface to know what the title really is getting at.
The title has a two-fold meaning. On one level, it is talking about how contemporary pluralistic thinking gags God. If truth is impossible to communicate, how can God speak? I'm not sure this should be offensive to a postmodernist. Their whole goal is to deconstruct religious thinking so God can't be said to speak to us anymore.
However, the truly offensive aspect of the title is the more profound meaning. Much of what Carson does in this book is to show how Christians have been gagging God by reacting to pluralism in wholly inappropriate and unbiblical ways. Someone who has digested his analysis in a self-evaluating way cannot miss that. The title is supposed to be offensive to Christians because Christians are the people who should know better. Because of that, the title is not quite a very clever pun but something in that area.
Rating: 5
Summary: Awesome
Comment: Very excellent book on the plague of pluralism
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Title: Return to Reason: A Critique of Enlightenment Evidentialism and a Defense of Reason and Belief in God by Kelly James Clark ISBN: 080280456X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: No Place for Truth or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? by David F. Wells ISBN: 080280747X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Telling the Truth by D. A. Carson ISBN: 0310243343 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism by Douglas R. Groothuis ISBN: 0830822283 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Exegetical Fallacies by D. A. Carson ISBN: 0801020867 Publisher: Baker Academic Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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