
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.

Studies in the Letter of James
2004

A Very Short Introduction
2010

The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus & the Truth of the Traditional Gospels
1996

Learning the Heart of the Gospel
1998

Theology as Inductive Art
2015

2001

What Faith Demands
1981

The Disputed Character of Christian Discipleship
2024

Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity
2009

2004