Exegetical fallacies: question

Can anybody tell me if Carson deals with with actual scripture or just principles relating to scripture?

I am interested in Carson's perception of eschatology esp his thoughts on the "Olivet discourse" I thought he may deal with this in this book....

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Graham Owen

Hi Mike

I am interested in Carson's perception of eschatology esp his thoughts on the "Olivet discourse" I thought he may deal with this in this book....

He references it once...

More generally, it is hard not to see that huge swaths of the New Testament are written with the primary purpose of undeceiving Christian readers (think, for instance, of substantial parts of Galatians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, James, Jude, the Olivet Discourse, and so forth) or of warning them against false teaching or practices.

Carson, D. A. (1996). Exegetical fallacies (2nd ed.) (114). Carlisle, U.K.; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Paternoster; Baker Books.

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I am interested in Carson's perception of eschatology esp his thoughts on the "Olivet discourse" I thought he may deal with this in this book....

Thanks

Mike, Perhaps you should look at D. A. Carson's commentaty on Matthew, i.e. here is a little section from the EBC:

1. The literary nature of chapters 24-25 and of the parallels in Mark and Luke has occupied much scholarly attention. For a century or two before and after Jesus, writings now described as "apocalyptic literature" flourished in Jewish and Christian circles. At best the label is not precise, and the genre's various forms tend to fray around the edges. G.E. Ladd ("Why Not Prophetic-Apocalyptic?" JBL 76 [1957]: 192-200) has wisely suggested that the NT apocalypses, especially this chapter and most of Revelation, read like a merging of apocalyptic and prophetic literature. The symbolism is not so sharp as in works indisputably apocalyptic, and the "above-below" dualism typical of apocalyptic is here rather muted. Other features of this discourse are often noted, especially the frequent imperatives, whether in the second person ("Watch out that no one deceives you," v. 4; "See to it that you are not alarmed," v. 6) or the third person ("Let no one in the field go back," v. 18).

D. A. Carson, "Matthew" In , in The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Volume 8: Matthew, Mark, Luke, ed. Frank E. Gaebelein (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1984), 488-89.