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 Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Scholarly Works
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 CiteThe 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 CiteGod, Greek philosophy, and the Bible: a response to Matthew Levering
Journal article Journal of Theological Interpretation · March 1, 2011 Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Faith and AI planning grant
Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lilly Endowment, Inc. · 2026 - 2027View All Grants