Andreas J. Köstenberger

Andreas Johannes Köstenberger (born November 2, 1957) is Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology and founding director of the Center for Biblical Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is an evangelical scholar, author, and founder of Biblical Foundations, an organization devoted to encouraging a return to the biblical foundations in the home, the church, and society. His primary research interests are the Gospel of John, Biblical Theology, and Hermeneutics.
Background and Education
Köstenberger was born on November 2, 1957, in Vienna, Austria. He received a masters (1980) and doctorate (1982) in social and economic sciences from the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (the Vienna University of Economics and Business). Subsequently, at the age of twenty-seven, he traveled to the United States to complete a Masters of Divinity (1988) at Columbia International University (then Columbia Bible College and Graduate School of Missions) and doctorate (1993) at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School under the direction of D. A. Carson. While studying with Dr. Carson, he completed his dissertation on the mission motif in John which was published in 1998 under the title, The Missions of Jesus and the Disciples in the Fourth Gospel.
Career
In 1996, he took a teaching position at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) where he was Senior Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology. At SEBTS he served as director of Ph.D. studies for 12 years. In 2007, he was elected by the Governing Body to a 5-year term as Visiting Fellow at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge in Cambridge, England. In April 2018, the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MBTS) board of trustees elected Dr. Köstenberger to the faculty as Research Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology.
From 1990-1993, he was an editorial board member for the Trinity Journal. Then, from 1996-1997 he was the editor of CBMW News (later Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood; now eikon: A Journey for Biblical Anthropology). He served as the Director of Acquisitions for B&H Academic from 2010-2014.
In 2006, he and his wife Margaret founded Biblical Foundations. According to their website, "The mission of Biblical Foundations is to help restore the biblical foundations for the family, the church, and society."
Köstenberger serves as the founding director of the Center for Biblical Studies at MBTS.
In 2010, he presented scholarly papers on various themes concerning Johannine theology at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. The same year, he presented a paper on “John’s Transposition of the Synoptic Pattern: Retelling the Story of Jesus in Another Key” at the Tyndale Fellowship in Cambridge, England, which was subsequently published in the Festschrift, Earliest Christian History: History, Literature, and Theology: Essays from the Tyndale Fellowship in Honor of Martin Hengel.
Dr. Kostenberger has appeared on numerous radio programs and podcasts, including the B.A.R. Podcast, the Biblical Foundations Podcast , For the Church Podcast with Jared Wilson, the Preaching & Preachers Podcast with Jason K. Allen, The Table Podcast with Darrell L. Bock, The Mind Renewed Podcast with Julian Charles, and the White Horse Inn.
Honors
*(2013) Invitation to Biblical Interpretation (Invitation to Theological Studies Series) was chosen as one of five finalists in the Commentary/Reference Works category for the "Gold Medallion" awards by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).
*(2014) "Wayne Grudem Award for Complementarian Scholarship", from the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (along with wife Margaret).
Personal Life
During the last year of his Masters of Divinity, Köstenberger met his wife, Margaret. They married in December 1989. Margaret holds a Doctor of Theology (Th.D.) degree from the University of South Africa and is Associate Professor of Theology and Women's Ministry and Faculty Coordinator of Women's Ministry Programs at MBTS.
Selected Works
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