C. Kavin Rowe, the George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School, has a new book, "Method, Context, and Meaning in New Testament Studies," a collection of essays in New Testament studies connecting Scripture, theology, and human life.

What is the purpose of studying the New Testament, and how is it best approached? Rowe explores these questions in sixteen essays covering a range of topics, including:  
     • the state of New Testament studies as a field 
     • the relationship between historical criticism and theological reading 
     • interdisciplinary methodology 
     • comparative religion and New Testament Christianity 
     • truth claims of the New Testament 
 
What unites these diverse chapters is a holistic approach to the New Testament. Against the modern tendency to separate disciplines, Rowe unites philosophy, theology, history, and biblical studies in fruitful conversation. Most crucially, he emphasizes the essential purpose of this academic work: its implications for human flourishing.  

Rowe, who is also the vice dean for faculty at the Divinity School and a former Fulbright Scholar, is also the author of Leading Christian Communities (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2023), Christianity's Surprise: A Sure and Certain Hope (Abingdon Press, 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), and Early Narrative Christology (de Gruyter, 2006, reprint, Baker Academic, 2009).