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Michael J. Kruger, Past President 2019

Educational Background

  • B.S. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • M.Div. Westminster Theological Seminary in California
  • Ph.D. University of Edinburgh

Current Position

President and the Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC

Select Publications

The Gospel of the Savior (Brill, 2005)
The Heresy of Orthodoxy (Crossway, 2010, with Andreas Köstenberger)
Canon Revisited (Crossway, 2012)
The Question of Canon (IVP, 2013)

About Dr. Kruger

He is one of the leading scholars today in the study of the origins of the New Testament, particularly the development of the New Testament canon and the transmission of the New Testament text. He is also the co-editor of The Early Text of the New Testament (Oxford, 2012), and Gospel Fragments (Oxford, 2009). Dr. Kruger is ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America and also serves (part-time) as Pastor of Teaching at Uptown PCA in downtown Charlotte. You can follow his blog at www.michaeljkruger.com or on Twitter @michaeljkruger.