Luke Timothy Johnson is an American New Testament scholar and historian of early Christianity. He is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theology and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. Johnson's research interests encompass the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts of early Christianity (particularly moral discourse), Luke-Acts, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Epistle of James.
Series
Books
Brother of Jesus, Friend of God
Studies in the Letter of James
2004
The New Testament
A Very Short Introduction
2010
The Real Jesus
The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus & the Truth of the Traditional Gospels
1996
Living Jesus
Learning the Heart of the Gospel
1998
The Revelatory Body
Theology as Inductive Art
2015
The Apostle Paul
2001
Sharing Possessions
What Faith Demands
1981
Imitating Christ
The Disputed Character of Christian Discipleship
2024
Among the Gentiles
Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity
2009
Jesus and the Gospels
2004
The Living Gospel
2004
Miracles
God's Presence and Power in Creation
2018
The Mind in Another Place
My Life as a Scholar
2022
Great World Religions
Christianity
2003
Faith's Freedom
A Classic Spirituality for Contemporary Christians
1990
Early Christianity
The Experience of the Divine
2002
Sacra Pagina
1991
The History of Christianity
From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation
2012
Practical Philosophy
The Greco-Roman Moralists
2002
Hebrews
A Commentary
2006
The Letter of James
1995
The First and Second Letters to Timothy
2001
Mystical Tradition
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
2008
Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity
A Missing Dimension in New Testament Study
1998
Scripture & Discernment
Decision Making in the Church
1996
Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church
The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians
2011
The Writings of the New Testament
An Interpretation
1986
The Story of the Bible
2006
The Creed
What Christians Believe and Why it Matters
2003
