Michael J. Kruger

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Michael J. Kruger is an American Reformed New Testament scholar and the Samuel C. Patterson Chancellor’s Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary. He was President of RTS-Charlotte from 2013 to 2025, and in 2025 he became Chancellor’s Professor, teaching at multiple RTS campuses. He was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and transferred his credentials to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in 2021.

Education and career highlights: Kruger earned a BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MDiv from Westminster Seminary California, and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh under Larry W. Hurtado. His doctoral work studied P.Oxy. 840. He was a visiting scholar at Saint Edmund’s College, Cambridge (2009–2010). In 2019 he served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Research focus: Kruger’s work centers on the Canon of the New Testament—how the church historically determined which books belong in the Bible.

Notable works: The Heresy of Orthodoxy (2010), Canon Revisited (2012), The Question of Canon (2013).

Website: michaeljkruger.com