C. Kavin Rowe

Vice Dean for Faculty; George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament

Office

211 Gray

Duke Divinity School
Box 90968
Durham, NC 27708-0968

Degrees

B.A. Wake Forest University
M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary
Ph.D. Duke University

C. Kavin Rowe is the Vice Dean of the Faculty and the George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament. The first of three volumes of his collected essays has recently been published as Leading Christian Communities (Eerdmans, 2023). He is the author of four other books: Christianity's Surprise: A Sure and Certain Hope (Abingdon, 2020), One True Life: the Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions (Yale University Press, 2016), World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age (Oxford University Press, 2009, paperback 2010), and Early Narrative Christology (de Gruyter, 2006, repr. Baker Academic, 2009). He has published dozens of articles and essays, and co-edited The Word Leaps the Gap (Eerdmans, 2008) and Rethinking the Unity and Reception of Luke and Acts (University of South Carolina Press, 2010). He is on the editorial board of several international peer-review journals and has also frequently written articles for faithandleadership.com.

Rowe has been a Fulbright Scholar, Regional Scholar for the Society of Biblical Literature, chair of the Society’s Southeastern Region New Testament section, president of the Society's Southeastern Region, and was elected to the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. He was awarded a Lilly Faculty Fellowship, a Christian Faith and Life Grant from the Louisville Institute, the John Templeton Prize for Theological Promise, the Paul J. Achtemeier Award, and a Distinguished Scholars grant from the McDonald Agape Foundation.

News and Stories

Dying Gives Us a Chance to Confront Truth

Since my wife entered hospice, we’ve grown closer together and deeper in our faith, writes Professor C. Kavin Rowe in the Wall Street Journal. 

Christianity’s Surprise

Instead of letting present circumstances lead us into confusion or even despair, writes Professor Kavin Rowe, we should see it as a chance for Christians to return to the heart of the faith.

Upcoming Events

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The Divinity School, in collaboration with the Duke Center for Jewish Studies, will host Judaism is About Love: A Conversation with Rabbi Shai Held. There will be a book signing by the author and a light reception immediately following the event.

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