Specialist on the New Testament canon
President of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, Kruger is the leading evangelical specialist on how the New Testament canon came to be.
His work dismantles the popular story — repeated everywhere from The Da Vinci Code to campus seminars — that a council or an emperor picked the books for political reasons. The evidence shows a core of New Testament writings functioning as Scripture in churches across the empire by the middle of the second century, long before any council could have imposed anything, and long before Constantine was born.
Canon Revisited is the academic argument; The Question of Canon takes on the specific claim that the very idea of a canon was a late imposition.
How the canon was actually formed, what was excluded and on what grounds, and why the "Constantine chose the books" story fails on the documentary evidence.
Papias, Irenaeus and the Muratorian fragment; the anonymity question; pre-70 and post-70 dating; Markan priority, Q and the Farrer hypothesis; the beloved disciple; and Bauckham's eyewitness thesis — with the sceptical case stated fairly.
Nag Hammadi, Thomas, Judas, Mary and Philip: what these texts actually are, when they were written, what they teach, and why the early church read them and said no — long before Constantine.