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

Life and Career.

Kantzer, who earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion from Harvard (1950), was a professor of biblical and systematic theology and academic dean of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (T.E.D.S.) from 1960-1978. There he helped to grow T.E.D.S. from a small denominational seminary into a major seminary serving the broader conservative-evangelical movement. In 1968 he also served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society. From 1977-1982 he was editor of Christianity Today magazine, and from 1982-1984 he was the president of Trinity College (now Trinity International University) in Deerfield, Illinois. He later returned to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and helped it found its Ph.D. program.

Kantzer was known as a defender of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy, attempting

Published Works.

• Evangelical Roots: A Tribute to Wilber Smith (1978) ed. by Kenneth S. Kantzer
• Perspectives on evangelical theology : papers from the thirtieth annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (1979) edited by Kenneth S. Kantzer and S. Gundry.
• Applying the Scriptures (International Council on Biblical Inerrancy Summit) (1986).
• Evangelical affirmations (1990) edited by Kenneth S. Kantzer and Carl F.H. Henry
• Doing theology in today’s world : Essays in Honor of Kenneth S. Kantzer (1991) ed. by John D. Woodbridge and Thomas Edward McComiskey.

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