Kenneth Kantzer

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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 biblical inerrancy, attempting to articulate this doctrine in such a way as to avoid the rigidity of fundamentalist Christianity while answering the objections of Christian liberalism.

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 in Victoria, Canada.

Works

=Books=

{{cite thesis |author1-last=Kantzer |author1-first=Kenneth S. |title=John Calvin's Theory of the Knowledge of God and the Word of God |type=Ph.D. |location=Harvard, CT |publisher=Harvard University Press |date=1950 }}
{{cite book |editor1-last=Kantzer |editor1-first=Kenneth S. |editor-mask=3 |title=Evangelical Roots: A Tribute to Wilber Smith |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=Thomas Nelson |date=1978 |oclc=3447310 }}
{{cite book |editor1-last=Kantzer |editor1-first=Kenneth S. |editor-mask=3 |editor2-last=Gundry |editor2-first=Stanley N. |editor2-link=Stanley N. Gundry |title=Perspectives on Evangelical Theology : papers from the thirtieth annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Baker Book House |date=1979 |isbn=978-0-801-05413-6 |oclc=6059641 }}
{{cite book |editor1-last=Kantzer |editor1-first=Kenneth S. |editor-mask=3 |title=Applying the Scriptures (Summit Papers from International Council on Biblical Inerrancy Summit III, held in Chicago, Dec. 10-13, 1986) |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Academie Books |date=1987 |isbn=978-0-310-25151-4 |oclc=15489683 }}
{{cite book |editor1-last=Kantzer |editor1-first=Kenneth S. |editor-mask=3 |editor2-last=Henry |editor2-first=Carl F. H. |editor2-link=Carl F. H. Henry |title=Evangelical Affirmations |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Academie Books |date=1990 |isbn=978-0-310-59531-1 |oclc=21583661 }}

=Articles and chapters=

{{cite journal |author1-last=Kantzer |author1-first=Kenneth S. |author-mask=3 |title=The Christology of Karl Barth |journal=Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society |volume=1 |issue=2 |date=Spring 1958 |pages=25–28 }}
{{cite book |author1-last=Kantzer |author1-first=Kenneth S. |author-mask=3 |chapter=Evangelicals and the Doctrine of Inerrancy |editor1-last=Kantzer |editor1-first=Kenneth S. |title=Evangelical Roots |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=Thomas Nelson |date=1978 }}{{cite web|title=Evangelicals and the Doctrine of Inerrancy|year=1979 |url=http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_inerrancy_kantzer.html|access-date=April 13, 2016|last1=Kantzer |first1=Kenneth S. }} - this chapter is an edited reprint of a chapter entitled "Evangelicals and the Inerrancy Question" - 1979

Kenneth S. Kantzer[ Kenneth Kantzer, "Evangelicals and Inerrancy"] edited reprint of a chapter entitled "" in Evangelical Roots

{{cite journal |author1-last=Kantzer |author1-first=Kenneth S. |author-mask=3 |title=The Carl Henry That Might have Been |journal=Christianity Today |date=April 5, 1993 }}{{cite web|title=The Carl Henry That Might have Been|date=8 December 2003 |url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/149/15.0.html|access-date=April 13, 2016}}
{{cite journal |author1-last=Kantzer |author1-first=Kenneth S. |author-mask=3 |title=Kenneth Kantzer Reflects on His History with the Magazine and the Evangelical Movement |journal=Christianity Today |date=June 1, 2002 }}{{cite web|title=Kenneth Kantzer Reflects on His History with the Magazine and the Evangelical Movement|url=http://www.ctlibrary.com/8854|access-date=April 13, 2016}}

Festschrift

{{cite book |editor1-last=Woodbridge |editor1-first=John D. |editor1-link=John D. Woodbridge |editor2-last=McComiskey |editor2-first=Thomas Edward |editor2-link=Thomas Edward McComiskey |title=Doing Theology in Today's World: Essays in Honor of Kenneth S. Kantzer |location=Grand Rapids, MI |publisher=Zondervan |date=1991 |isbn=978-0-310-44730-6 |oclc=23766034 }}