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Kavin Rowe

George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament
Divinity School
Duke Box 90967, Durham, NC 27708-0967
Divinity School, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


C. Kavin Rowe is the George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Duke University Divinity School. His newest book is Christianity's Surprise: A Sure and Certain Hope (Abingdon, 2020). He is the author of three other books: 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 multiple scholarly articles 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, a Distinguished Scholars grant from the McDonald Agape Foundation, and a project grant from the Issachar Fund.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament · 2020 - Present Divinity School
Professor of New Testament · 2016 - Present Divinity School

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Recent Publications


The art of retrieval: Stoicism?

Journal Article Journal of Religious Ethics · December 1, 2012 This essay argues that retrieving insights from the ancient Stoic philosophers for Christian ethics is much more difficult than is often assumed and, further, that the "ethics of retrieval" is itself something worth prolonged reflection. The central proble ... Full text Cite

The ecclesiology of Acts 1

Journal Article Interpretation (United Kingdom) · July 1, 2012 This article examines the ecclesiology of Acts by considering the political shape of Acts vis-à-vis the wider Roman world. The discussion of three scenes in Acts shows that there is a profound and productive tension at the heart of Acts' theological vision ... Full text Cite

God, Greek philosophy, and the Bible: a response to Matthew Levering

Journal Article Journal of Theological Interpretation · March 1, 2011 Link to item Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Duke University · 2005 Ph.D.
Princeton Theological Seminary · 1999 M.Div.
Wake Forest University · 1996 B.A.