Kevin Vanhoozer Quotes

• Pride does not listen. It knows.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Pride, Doe, Knows

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• Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Desire, Doctrine, Blind

  Kevin J. Vanhoozer (2014). “Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine”, p.14, Presbyterian Publishing Corp

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• Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Art, Literature, Systematic

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Understanding, Should, Theology

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Real, Moving, Goal

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Ideas, Way, Morality

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Ideas, Church, Culture

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• 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 Vanhoozer

  Mean, Church, Tradition

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• All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Biblical, Language, Theory

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come to theology classes somewhat reluctantly, assuming that doctrine is neither practical nor relevant to their future ministry.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Practice, Class, Church

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Everyday, Way, Scripts

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• Life is something to be done, and so is drama.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Drama, Done, Life Is

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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