Kevin Vanhoozer

“To get a doctorate, you need only have a modicum of intelligence and the ability to grind it out. I’m afraid you may only be qualified to be an academic, not a pastor. Ministry is a lot harder than scholarship.”
― Kevin J. Vanhoozer, The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision

“The theory-practice dichotomy that still bedevils many a theological curriculum serves neither seminary nor church. There is a debilitating dichotomy between what Christians believe (doctrine) and how they live their lives (discipleship).”
― Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine

“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

“Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance.”
― Kevin J. Vanhoozer, The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical Linguistic Approach to Christian Doctrine