Tony Reinke recently asked D. A. Carson the following:
Dr. Carson, you’ve edited what I think is one of the year’s most important books, titled, The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures (Eerdmans; 2016), a 1,200-page feast of insights, an incredible achievement. I was drawn to the concluding FAQ, which you wrote, where you take up, among many other things, Karl Barth’s doctrine of Scripture. I’ve wanted to ask you about Barth more generally, maybe now is the time. Quite frankly I find Barth bewildering. On one hand his works seem to be littered with theological question marks, so I am cautious. Yet he is voluminously articulate when it comes to God’s majesty, and he is a rare theologian who seemed to operate with a robust appreciation for the spectrum of human affections. So on the other side I find Barth impossible to ignore. And over the years I’ve met half a dozen prominent theologians who actively read Barth devotionally, but they wouldn’t dare admit it in public. So help me out. What is a discerning Evangelical to do with Karl Barth?
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