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Letters Along the Way Letters Along the Way.76735.int.qxd 11/12/07 10:07 AM Page iii Letters Along the Way A Novel of the Christian Life D. A. C ARSON AND J D. W OHN OODBRIDGE CROSSWAY B OOKS WHEATON, ILLINOIS NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND Letters Along the Way.76735.int.qxd 11/12/07 10:07 AM Page iv Letters Along the Way Copyright ©1993 by D. A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge Published by Crossway Books apublishing ministry of Good News Publishers 1300 Crescent Street Wheaton, Illinois 60187 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechani- cal, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided by USA copyright law. Cover design/illustration: Dennis Hill Art Direction: Mark Schramm First printing, 1993 Printed in the United States of America Scripture is taken from The Holy Bible: New International Version®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. The “NIV” and “New International Version” trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by International Bible Society. Use of either trademark requires the permission of International Bible Society. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Carson, D. A. Letters along the way / D. A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge. p. cm. 1. Evangelism. 2. Christian Life—1960- 3. Imaginary letters. I.Woodbridge, John D., 1941- . II. Title. BR1640.C37 1993 277.3'0825—dc20 92-40552 ISBN 13: 978-0-89107-673-5 ISBN 10: 0-89107-673-5 PG 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 This book is gratefully dedicated to Kenneth S. Kantzer ''1 admit that J worship the God of our fathers) as a follower of the Way." -THEAPOSTLE PAUL, AS QUOTED IN Am' 24:14 Preface Tn mid-1991 a former student of ours at Trinity Evangelical 1 Divinity School, Timothy Journeyman, approached one of us to solicit advice about the wisdom of publishing a rather remarkable series of letters. These had been written to him over the past thirteen or fourteen years, covering the span from Timothy's conversion when he was a junior at Princeton, through further study and employment, to seminary training and the first years of pastoral min istry. As a pastor, Timothy could see that these letters contained not only a great deal of distilled wisdom that had helped him mature in his Christian faith, but also a fair bit of useful comment on the changing face of evangelicalism. The writer of these letters is Dr. Paul Woodson, then Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology here at Trinity. Naturally enough, Timothy approached Prof. Woodson about publishing them. Prof. Woodson did not think they were worth it, and in any case was loath to release time at his age from his more serious research, a multi-vol ume treatment of Calvin's doctrine of God. Still, he had no objection to Timothy seeing the letters through the press, with or without col laboration. That was why Timothy approached one of us for coun sel. Since we have worked together on projects before, we decided to collaborate once again, edit the letters here and there, check facts, and generally prepare them for the press. We asked Timothy to reconstruct, as well as he could, the situation or correspondence that called forth each letter. Timothy's notes we have greatly reduced, leaving only enough material to enhance the reader's ability to appre ciate the letters themselves. When we told him what we were doing, Dr. Woodson himself, we might add, seemed to be amused, but not displeased. We should perhaps explain two or three of our editorial decisions. Not all the letters that Dr. Woodson wrote to Timothy Journeyman during this period have been included, but only those that deal with ix spiritual, moral, Biblical, or theological issues, or those that com ment on the changing scene. Most pleasantries have been edited out. Where such deletions have affected the flow of the letter, we have noted them. In 1978 the letters were written by hand, with a foun tain pen, and emphasis was achieved by underlining. Six years later, Dr. Woodson's letters were run off a computer printer, complete with italics. In 1978 Dr. Woodson used the male pronoun and adjective generically; gradually he changed his style to "gender-neutral" expressions or to complex expressions such as "he or she." Such dis tinctions we have tried to preserve in our editing because they pro vide a subtle feel for the changes the last decade or so has witnessed. Rev. Timothy Journeyman joins us in wishing that these letters will prove enlightening, informative, and challenging to a wide cir cle of readers never envisaged when Woodson, hearing that Journeyman's father had died and that Journeyman himself had become a Christian in the wake of that tragedy, first picked up his fountain pen to write them. -%e 'Ecfitors x
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