Kevin Vanhoozer

“Serious and sustained Bible reading, at once reflective and practical, is the soul of theology and the beating heart of the body of Christ, the”
― Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Mere Christian Hermeneutics: Transfiguring What It Means to Read the Bible Theologically

“If I speak in the tongues of Reformers and of professional theologians, and I have not personal faith in Christ, my theology is nothing but the noisy beating of a snare drum. And if I have analytic powers and the gift of creating coherent conceptual systems of theology, so as to remove liberal objections, and have not personal hope in God, I am nothing. And if I give myself to resolving the debate between supra and infralapsarianism, and to defending inerrancy, and to learning the Westminster Catechism, yea, even the larger one, so as to recite it by heart backwards and forwards, and have not love, I have gained nothing.”
― Kevin Vanhoozer

“The knowledge of God is a mountain steep indeed and difficult to climb—the majority of people scarcely reach its base. —Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses”
― Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Mere Christian Hermeneutics: Transfiguring What It Means to Read the Bible Theologically

“The church is biblical, therefore, when it seeks to embody the words in the power of the Spirit and so become a living commentary.”
― Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine