Below is an outline of Andy Naselli’s essay, “D. A. Carson’s Theological Method” (PDF), published in the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 29 (2011): 245-74:
1. Carson’s Background: Some Factors That Influence His Theological Method
1.1. Carson’s Family
1.2. Carson’s Education
1.3. Carson’s Professional Experience
1.4. Some Other Background Factors
2. Carson’s Corrigible Presuppositions
2.1. Carson’s Metaphysics: God
2.2. Carson’s Epistemology: Chastened Foundationalism
2.3. Carson’s Bibliology
3. Carson’s Understanding of the Tasks of the Theological Disciplines
3.1. Exegesis
3.2. Biblical Theology (BT)
3.3. Historical Theology (HT)
3.4. Systematic Theology (ST)
4. Carson’s Understanding of the Interrelationships of the Theological Disciplines
4.1. Theological Hermeneutics
4.2. Exegesis and BT
4.3. Exegesis and HT
4.4. Exegesis and ST
4.5. HT and ST
4.6. BT and HT
4.7. BT and ST
4.8. Exegesis, BT, HT, ST, and Practical Theology (PT)
4.9. Spiritual Experience and the Theological Disciplines
5. Conclusion
