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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.
Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity
2009
Studies in the Letter of James
2004
The Experience of the Divine
2002
A Classic Spirituality for Contemporary Christians
1990
Christianity
2003
A Commentary
2006
The Disputed Character of Christian Discipleship
2024
2004
Learning the Heart of the Gospel
1998
God's Presence and Power in Creation
2018
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
2008
The Greco-Roman Moralists
2002
The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians
2011
A Missing Dimension in New Testament Study
1998
1991
The Acts of the Apostles
1992
Decision Making in the Church
1996
What Faith Demands
1981
2001
What Christians Believe and Why it Matters
2003
2001
From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation
2012
Perspectives in Conflict
1999
1995
2004
My Life as a Scholar
2022
A Very Short Introduction
2010
The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus & the Truth of the Traditional Gospels
1996
Theology as Inductive Art
2015
2006
An Interpretation
1986
