D. A. Carson is Research Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He earned his PhD in New Testament from the University of Cambridge and has served as an assistant pastor and pastor and has conducted itinerant ministry in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. A prolific writer, Dr. Carson has authored or edited more than fifty books, including The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism (Zondervan 1996), which won the 1997 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Award in the category “theology and doctrine”; Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church (Zondervan, 2005); Christ and Culture Revisited (Eerdmans, 2012); and The Intolerance of Tolerance (Eerdmans, 2012).