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| Kevin J. Vanhoozer |
Blanchard Professor of Theology
On faculty since 2009
Office: BGC 282
Phone: (630) 752-5389
Email: Kevin.J.Vanhoozer@wheaton.edu |
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Education
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Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1985 (Theology)
Dissertation: "Stories and Histories of Jesus: Biblical Narrative, Theological Method, and the Hermeneutic Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur"
M.Div., (Honors) Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia) 1982
Thesis: "The Special Status of the Bible in Recent Theology: A Critical Comparison and Analysis of James Barr, Brevard Childs, and David Kelsey"
B.A., Westmont College, California, 1978 (double major: Philosophy and Religious Studies)
Amherst College (Fall, 1975)
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Professional and Personal Interests
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Prior to joining the Wheaton Graduate School faculty in the Fall of 2009, Dr. Vanhoozer served as Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois (from 1998 to 2009), where he trained pastors to be theologians (and theologians to be pastors) and mentored doctoral students. Before that he taught theology and religious studies for eight years at New College, home of the University of Edinburgh’s Faculty of Divinity, where he also organized the biennial Edinburgh Dogmatics Conferences and was a member of the Panel on Doctrine for the Church of Scotland.
Dr. Vanhoozer is a native Californian who suffered through childhood in Santa Barbara. He is married to Sylvie, whom he met during a one-year mission stint in France. They have two daughters, Mary and Emma, both Wheaton grads. In 1999 Dr. Vanhoozer appeared on the cover of Christianity Today (not the swimsuit issue, happily) as one of the six "new theologians" featured in the lead story. He was the 2003 Westmont College Alumnus of the Year. He is an amateur classical pianist and serious reader, and finds that music and literature help him integrate academic theology and spiritual formation.
Since his seminary days, Dr. Vanhoozer has been thinking about what it means to be biblical in theology and about what it means to be theological in everything else, from the arts and sciences to family life and geopolitics. He believes that every interesting development in society and the academy eventually shows up in the way people interpret the Bible. Hence his primary interest is helping the church to move from sacra pagina to sacra doctrina to wise living on the stage of world history, with canon sense, catholic sensibility, and contextual sensitivity.
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Courses Taught
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- Theological Hermeneutics
- Biblical Theology
- God in Biblical and Systematic Theology
- Readings in Theology and the Imagination
- The Doctrine of Atonement
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Membership in Professional Societies
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- American Academy of Religion
- Evangelical Theological Society
- Scottish Evangelical Theological Society
- Society of Biblical Literature
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Research
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- Systematic theology
- Theological hermeneutics
- Use of the Bible in theology
- Theology and culture
- Divine action
- Paul Ricoeur
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Papers Published and/or Presented
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Books
Pictures at a Biblical Exhibition: Theological Scenes of the Church’s Worship, Witness, and Wisdom (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2010)
Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Co-author (with A. K. M. Adam, Stephen Fowl, and Francis Watson), Reading Scripture with the Church: Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006)
The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2005)
First Theology: God, Scripture, and Hermeneutics (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002)
Is There a Meaning in This Text? The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge (Grand Rapids, Zondervan, 1998)
Biblical Narrative in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur: A Study in Hermeneutics and Theology (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Books edited
Theological Interpretation of the Old Testament: A Book-by-Book Survey (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008)
Theological Interpretation of the New Testament: A Book-by-Book Survey (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008)
Co-editor (with Martin Warner), Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology: Reason, Meaning and Experience (Aldershott: Ashgate, 2007)
Co-editor (with Charles Anderson and Michael Sleasman), Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007)
Co-editor (with James K. A. Smith and Bruce Benson) Hermeneutics at the Crossroads: (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006)
General Editor (with Craig Bartholomew, Daniel J. Treier, and N. T. Wright), Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005)
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Nothing Greater, Nothing Better: Theological Essays on the Love of God (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001)
Co-editor (with Andrew Kirk), To Stake a Claim: Mission and the Western Crisis of Knowledge. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1999)
The Trinity in a Pluralistic Age: Theological Essays on Culture and Religion Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997)
Vanhoozer C.V. and further publications
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