Christianity's Surprise

C. Kavin Rowe is the George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of NewTestament. His forthcoming book is Christianity's Surprise: A Sure andCertain Hope (Abingdon, 2020). He is the author of three other books: OneTrue Life: the Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions (YaleUniversity Press, 2016), World Upside Down: Reading Acts in theGraeco-Roman Age (Oxford University Press, 2009, paperback 2010), and EarlyNarrative Christology (de Gruyter, 2006, repr. Baker Academic, 2009). Hehas published multiple scholarly articles and co-edited The Word Leaps theGap (Eerdmans, 2008) and Rethinking the Unity and Reception of Lukeand Acts (University of South Carolina Press, 2010). He is on theeditorial board of several international peer-review journals and has alsofrequently written articles for faithandleadership.com.Rowe has been a Fulbright Scholar, Regional Scholar for the Society ofBiblical Literature, chair of the Society's Southeastern Region New Testamentsection, president of the Society's Southeastern Region, and was elected to theStudiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. He was awarded a Lilly Faculty Fellowship,a Christian Faith and Life Grant from the Louisville Institute, the JohnTempleton Prize for Theological Promise, the Paul J. Achtemeier Award, and aDistinguished Scholars grant from the McDonald Agape Foundation.