Michael J. Kruger

Michael J. Kruger
Residence Charlotte, NC
Nationality American
Education M. Div. Westminster Theological Seminary
Ph. D. University of Edinburgh
Occupation Theologian and church historian
Employer Reformed Theological Seminary
Title Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Religion Christian (Presbyterian)
Website http://michaeljkruger.com/

Michael J. Kruger is the President and the Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC. He is ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America and also serves (part-time) as Pastor of Teaching at Uptown PCA in downtown Charlotte.[1]

Education and Career

He obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill followed by an M. Div. from Westminster Seminary California. His doctoral studies were at the University of Edinburgh where his advisor was Larry Hurtado.[1] His dissertation is a study of P.Oxy. 840.[2]

During the 2009-2010 academic year he was a visiting scholar at Saint Edmund's College, Cambridge.

Thought and Research

Kruger's work focuses on the Canon of the New Testament, particularly how the Christian church has historically understood which books belong in the Bible.[2]

Bibliography

  • Kruger, Michael J. (2013). The question of Canon : challenging the status quo in the New Testament debate. Downers Grove, Ill., USA: IVP Academic, InterVarsity Press. ISBN 978-0830840311. 
  • Kruger, Michael J. (2012). Canon revisited : establishing the origins and authority of the New Testament books. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway. ISBN 978-1433505003. 
  • Hill, edited by Charles E.; Kruger, Michael J. (2012). The early text of the New Testament (1st ed.). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199566365. 
  • Köstenberger, Andreas J.; Marshall, Michael J. Kruger ; foreword by I. Howard (2010). The heresy of orthodoxy : how contemporary culture's fascination with diversity has reshaped our understanding of early Christianity. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway. ISBN 978-1433501432. 
  • Kraus, with an introduction by Thomas J. (2009). Gospel fragments. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199208159. 
  • Kruger, Michael J. (2005). The Gospel of the Savior : an analysis of P. Oxy 840 and its place in the Gospel traditions of early christianity. Leiden [u.a.]: Brill. ISBN 978-9004143937. 

References

  1. 1 2 "About Michael J. Kruger". RTS. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Interview with Brian Auten". Apologetics 315. Retrieved 28 August 2014.

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