“But the theological component is more serious. The Enlightenment tried to make human beings the measure of everything; Rationalism elevated human reason to godlike status; existentialism debunked significance based on knowledge or status, and assigned it to human action, will, decision; now postmodernity insists there is no objective truth that can lay claims on us. At its root, postmodernity is deeply antiauthoritarian, as even its most astute exponents recognize:”
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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.