Craig A. Carter
Christian theologian and author known for work on classical theism, the Great Tradition, and biblical interpretation; commonly publishes as Craig A. Carter.
Books
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1. Contemplating God With The Great Tradition
Recovering Trinitarian Classical Theism
A vigorous retrieval of Nicene, Trinitarian classical theism, this work argues that Scripture is best read within the church’s Great Tradition, recovering doctrines like divine simplicity, immutability, impassibility, aseity, eternal generation, and inseparable operations. It critiques modern theistic personalism, social trinitarianism, and historicist exegesis, contending that biblical language about God is analogical and grounded in metaphysical realism and Christian Platonism. Drawing on the fathers and medieval doctors, it calls pastors and theologians to reembrace patristic and medieval metaphysics as the proper context for faithful doctrine and contemporary ministry.
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3. Interpreting Scripture With The Great Tradition
Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis
This book argues for retrieving and reengaging the historic church’s interpretive resources—the “Great Tradition”—as a corrective and guide for contemporary biblical interpretation, showing how patristic, medieval, Reformation, and later practices can be brought into constructive conversation with modern historical-critical methods; it emphasizes that theology, ecclesial context, doctrinal commitments, and spiritual-sensory readings (such as typology and allegory) shape meaning, and offers principles and examples for reading Scripture faithfully within the life and creeds of the church rather than in isolation.
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