Kenneth Kantzer

Kenneth S. Kantzer (March 29, 1917 – June 20, 2002) was an American theologian and educator in the evangelical Christian tradition.

Life and career

He was born Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Kantzer, having studied at Faith Theological Seminary, Trinity Seminary and Bible College, and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion from Harvard University (1950), was a professor of biblical and systematic theology and academic dean of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) from 1960 to 1978. There he helped to grow TEDS from a small denominational seminary to a major evangelical Christian graduate school with a national and international reputation.

In 1968 he also served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society. From 1977 to 1982, he was editor of Christianity Today, and, from 1982 to 1984, was president of Trinity College in Deerfield, Illinois. He later returned to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and helped found its Ph.D. program.

Kantzer was known as a defender of the doctrine of

Through his teaching and his leadership at TEDS and his work at Christianity Today, Kantzer made a significant contribution to the growth of evangelicalism for more than forty years.

He died in 2002, Victoria, Canada.

Works

Books

• Kantzer, Kenneth S. (1950). John Calvin's Theory of the Knowledge of God and the Word of God (Ph.D.). Harvard, CT: Harvard University Press.
• ———, ed. (1978). Evangelical Roots: A Tribute to Wilber Smith. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson.
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• ———, ed. (1987). Applying the Scriptures (Summit Papers from International Council on Biblical Inerrancy Summit III, held in Chicago, Dec. 10-13, 1986). Grand Rapids, MI: Academie Books.
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• ——— (Spring 1958). "The Christology of Karl Barth". Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society. 1 (2): 25–28.
• ——— (1978). "Evangelicals and the Doctrine of Inerrancy". In Kantzer, Kenneth S. (ed.). Evangelical Roots. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson.^[1] - this chapter is an edited reprint of a chapter entitled "Evangelicals and the Inerrancy Question" - 1979

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• ——— (April 5, 1993). "The Carl Henry That Might have Been". Christianity Today.^[2]
• ——— (June 1, 2002). "Kenneth Kantzer Reflects on His History with the Magazine and the Evangelical Movement". Christianity Today.^[3]

Festschrift

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Further reading

• Influential Teacher and Leader Kenneth Kantzer Dies - Christianity Today Magazine.
• The Legacy of Kenneth Kantzer