Public Lecture: Five Misconceptions About Origin of the New Testament Canon

In a Friday morning lecture, Dr. Michael Kruger taught on the development of the New Testament canon by addressing five common misconceptions about how we came to have 27 books in our New Testaments. Dr Michael Kruger currently serves as the president of Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte NC campus). In addition to serving in that leadership role, he also teaches as the Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity. He earned his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where he researched P.Oxy 840, a fragment of an apocryphal gospel, one of the thousands of New Testament fragments we currently have. He is the author of numerous books including works on the New Testament, the canon of the New Testament, early Christianity, and Christian origins. His website is Canon Fodder.Send us Fan Mail