Dr. Andreas J. Köstenberger

Dr. Andreas J. Köstenberger is -- Update: Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology and Director of the Center for Biblical Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary -- former Senior Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at South-eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina. He is Founder and President of Biblical Foundations, an organization devoted to encouraging a return to the biblical foundations in the home, the church, and society. He has authored, edited, or translated nearly fifty books, and is editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society.

• Biblical Foundations (https://www.biblicalfoundations.org/)

• Update 2020: Faculty Page at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (https://www.mbts.edu/about/faculty/andreas-kostenberger/)

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Books by Köstenberger and Kruger

• Andreas J. Köstenberger and Michael J. Kruger, The Heresy of Orthodoxy : How Contemporary Culture's Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity, Crossway (2010)

• Andreas J. Köstenberger, Truth in a Culture of Doubt : Engaging Skeptical Challenges to the Bible, B&H Academic (2014)

• ___________________, Truth Matters : Confident Faith in a Confusing World, B&H Academic (2014)

•  Michael J. Kruger, The Question of Canon : Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate, IVP Academic (2013)

• _____________, Canon Revisited : Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books, Crossway (2012)

• _____________, Christianity at the Crossroads : How the Second Century Shaped the Future of the Church, SPCK Publishing (2017)

Items mentioned in / relevant to the interview

• Walter Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, Sigler Press (1996), (first pub. German 1934; English 1971)

• Arland J. Hultgren, The Rise of Normative Christianity, Wipf & Stock Pub (reissue 2004)

• Thomas A. Robinson, The Bauer Thesis Examined : The Geography of Heresy in the Early Christian Church (Studies in the Bible & Early Christianity), Edwin Mellen Press (1988)

• H. E. W. Turner, The Pattern of Christian Truth : A Study in the Relations between Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Early Church (Bampton Lectures), Wipf & Stock (2004)

• Daniel J. Harrington, "The Reception of Walter Bauer's "Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity" during the Last Decade", Harvard Theological Review, vol. 73 no. 1/2, pp. 289-298 (1980)

• Darrell L. Bock, The Missing Gospels : Unearthing the Truth Behind Alternative Christianities, Thomas Nelson (2007)

• Birger A. Pearson, Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions And Literature, Fortress Press (2007)

• Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture : The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament, Oxford University Press (2011)

• ____________, Misquoting Jesus : The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, HarperOne (reprint 2007)

• ____________, How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee, HarperOne (2014)

• Michael F. Bird et al, How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus' Divine Nature - A Response to Bart D. Ehrman, Zondervan (2014)

• Lee Martin McDonald & James A. Sanders, eds., The Canon Debate, Hendrickson (2001)

• The Nag Hammadi Library (http://gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlalpha.html)

• The Gospel of Thomas (http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html)

• Robert M. Grant, The Secret Sayings of Jesus : According to the Gospel of Thomas, Fontana (1965)

• Mark Goodacre, Thomas and the Gospels : The Case for Thomas's Familiarity with the Synoptics, Eerdmans (2012)

• Stephen J. Patterson, The Gospel of Thomas and Jesus, Polebridge Press (1994)

• The Muratorian Fragment (http://www.bible-researcher.com/muratorian.html)

• Marcionism (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism)

• L. W. Barnard, "The Origins and Emergence of the Church in Edessa during the First Two Centuries A.D.", Brill (1968) [My thanks to Arthur L. Killings for drawing my attention to this helpful article.]

• 1 Clement (tr. J. B. Lightfoot) (http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/1clement-lightfoot.html)

• Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, Eerdmans (2008)

• Debate: William Lane Craig Vs. Bart D. Ehrman, Is There Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus?, (2006)

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• TMR 096 : Robert M. Bowman Jr. : On How Bart Ehrman's Jesus Became God

• TMR 065 : Dr. Gary Habermas : The Minimal Facts Approach to Jesus' Resurrection

 Acknowledgements

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