The Core New Testament is a concise edition of apostolic Christianity drawn from the witness of Luke and Paul. In three scriptural volumes it gathers the earliest recoverable testimony to Jesus and the apostles from the oldest known manuscripts, presented for reading, study, and worship.
The Gospel to Theophilus offers a reconstructed text of Luke’s Gospel with selected passages from Acts. The Book of Paul weaves excerpts from Acts together with Paul’s epistles into a unified account of the apostle’s life, mission, and teaching. The Kerygma (Core Gospel Message) distills the earliest apostolic proclamation into two chapters, one drawn from Luke and Acts, the other from Paul’s letters.
A detailed preface sets out the rationale and methodology behind the edition, which treats Luke and Paul as a self-contained apostolic canon grounded in the reliability of the Lukan witness. Intended for devotional and practical use, it gives new readers an uncluttered introduction to Jesus and the apostles and offers seasoned readers a fresh encounter with familiar Scripture. For the scholarly case behind the project, see the companion volume, The Case for the Core New Testament.