Asbury Seminary congratulates Dr.Craig Keener, F.M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies, on the release of his new book Miracles Today: The Supernatural Work of God in the Modern World on October 19. In this book, Dr. Keener explores the miraculous works of God that have been part of the experience of the church since Christianity began and continue into the present. He addresses common questions about miracles and provides reasons and evidence to believe in them today.

“While dramatic signs of special divine action appear, especially where Jesus’s message is reaching those who haven’t previously heard it, there are plenty of well-documented cases occurring throughout the world, including here in North America,” Dr. Keener said. “Instant healings of blindness or deafness? Cases certified by doctors? Restoration from death and stilling storms? These still happen today.”

Dr. Keener has authored 34 books, six of which have won book awards in Christianity Today, of which altogether more than one million copies are in circulation. His IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (1993), now in its 2nd revised edition (2014), has sold more than half a million copies (including editions in several languages, including more than fifty thousand copies in Korean). The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, for which Craig authored most of the New Testament notes (and which John Walton and Craig edited), won Bible of the Year in the 2017 Christian Book Awards, and also won Book of the Year in the Religion: Christianity category of the International Book Awards.

Other book publications include Galatians, New Cambridge Bible Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018); Spirit Hermeneutics (Eerdmans, 2016); The Mind of the Spirit: Paul’s Approach to Transformed Thinking (Baker Academic, 2016); Acts: A Exegetical Commentary (4 vols., 4559 pages; Baker Academic, 2012-2015); Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts (Baker Academic, 2011); The Historical Jesus of the Gospels (Eerdmans, 2009); The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary (Eerdmans, 2009); Romans (Cascade, 2009); 1-2 Corinthians (Cambridge, 2005); The Gospel of John: A Commentary (Hendrickson/Baker Academic, 2003).

Craig is married to Médine Moussounga Keener, who holds a Ph.D. from University of Paris 7. She was a refugee for 18 months in her nation of Congo (their story together appears in the book Impossible Love, Chosen Books, 2016), and together Craig and Médine work for ethnic reconciliation in the U.S. and Africa. Craig was ordained in an African-American denomination in 1991 and for roughly a decade before moving to Wilmore was one of the associate ministers in an African-American megachurch in Philadelphia. In recent years he has taught in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and in connection with various denominations.

Dr. Keeners book Miracles Today: The Supernatural Work of God in the Modern World is available on Amazon or wherever books are sold.