Dr. Gowler is Dr. Lovick Pierce and Bishop George F. Pierce Chair of Religion; Founding Director, The Pierce Institute for Leadership and Community Engagement, Oxford College of Emory University; and Senior Faculty Fellow, the Center for Ethics, Emory University. Dr. Gowler is the author of Host, Guest, Enemy, and Friend: Portraits of the Pharisees in Luke and Acts; What Are They Saying about the Parables?; What Are They Saying about the Historical Jesus?; James through the Centuries; and The Parables after Jesus: Their Imaginative Receptions across Two Millennia. His books have been translated into French, Korean, and Japanese. He has also published dozens of articles, book chapters, and book reviews, is the editor or coeditor of seventeen books—the most recent being a 2012 volume with Oxford University Press, Radical Christian Voices and Practice—and has served as coeditor of Emory Studies in Early Christianity since 1991. His blog on his most recent book can be found at: http://parablesreception.blogspot.com
