Kenneth Kantzer
Kenneth S. Kantzer was an American theologian and educator in the evangelical Christian tradition.
Life and career
He was born in 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, was a professor of biblical and systematic theology and academic dean of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School 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
Articles and chapters
- - this chapter is an edited reprint of a chapter entitled "Evangelicals and the Inerrancy Question" - 1979