Vanhoozer Quotes

#1. 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

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

Kevin Vanhoozer

#3. Pastor-theologians exist to embody the evangelical mood, an indicative declaration ("He is risen! He is Lord!") and a concomitant way of being that is attuned to the world as already-not-yet made new in Jesus Christ.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

#4. Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#5. Yikes. Yahoo. Yum.

Charlaine Harris

#6. Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

Kevin Vanhoozer

#7. The call to self-emptying will always be unpopular to those whose pockets and closets are full. What

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

#8. 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

#9. A woman's life is a history of the affections.

Washington Irving

#10. The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.

Argus Hamilton

#11. 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

#12. I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.

Frederick Seidel

#13. The fact that the Hebrew word 'adam', meaning 'man', is identical with Adam as the name of the father of Seth plays a fundamental role in fusing the three stories (Gen 2:7-3:24, 4:1, 4:25 and 5:1) in one.

Kamal Salibi

#14. Pride does not listen. It knows.

Kevin Vanhoozer

#15. You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.

Franz Kafka

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles the world that wants to be made manifest, and it is just looking for someone to come through. And it's dying for you to make it. And if you don't do it, it will go find somebody else.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

Kip Winger

#20. There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

Rachel Nichols

#21. Life is something to be done, and so is drama.

Kevin Vanhoozer

#22. 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

#23. The church is biblical, therefore, when it seeks to embody the words in the power of the Spirit and so become a living commentary. The church is thus not only the "people of the book" but also "the (lived) interpretation of the book.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

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

Kevin Vanhoozer

#25. Life is short. You've got to live while you've got life in you.

Rich Amooi

#26. The truth is that there is a world of difference between looking beautiful and being beautiful.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

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

Kevin Vanhoozer

#28. the church, like television, is always educating; the only question is, What is it teaching?

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

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

Kevin Vanhoozer

#30. Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk legalistic anxiety.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer