What Does it Mean to Be "Biblical?" Dr. Kevin J. Vanhoozer

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🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dr. Kevin J. Vanhoozer is one of the leading Evangelical theologians of our day. He’s taught systematic theology and hermeneutics at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Edinburgh University, and Wheaton College. He’s currently a Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He’s the author of many groundbreaking books, two of which are important for this conversation: Is There a Meaning in this Text? and Mere Christian Hermeneutics: Transfiguring What it Means to Read the Bible Theologically. Join the Theology in the Raw community to listen to our "extra innings" conversation about "inerrancy" and whether this is a legitimate description of the Bible.

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology and DeRah. I am so excited about my guest today. Kevin J. Van Hooser is one of the leading evangelical theologians of our day. He's taught systematic theology in hermeneutics at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, at Edinburgh University in Wheaton College. He is currently the research professor of systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical
0:21.2	Divinity School.
0:21.9	He's the author of many groundbreaking books, two of which are important for this conversation.
0:26.4	Is there a meaning in this text and his more recent book, Mere Christian Herminetics?
0:32.6	And be sure to stay tuned for our extra innings conversation where we discuss the highly
0:37.4	sensitive and controversial concept of inerrancy. Is. sure to stay tuned for our extra innings conversation where we discussed the highly sensitive
0:37.8	and controversial concept of inerrancy. Is the Bible without error? Kevin and I go into
0:45.1	great detail on that sensitive question in our extra innings portion of this conversation.
0:50.3	If you would like to listen to that portion of the conversation, you can go to patreon.com
0:54.0	forward slash theology in the raw and become a member of the theology in the raw community.
0:59.1	Okay, please welcome to the show for the very first time, the one or only Dr. Kevin J. Van Hooser.
1:16.7	All right, Kevin Van Hooser, thank you so much for being a guest at the Aldjan Raw. I am so excited about this conversation. I'm so blessed that you agreed to come on this show.
1:22.1	I didn't expect to, you know, sometimes I'll reach out to people. I'm like, I don't know if they're
1:26.5	going to respond, let alone be able to come on the podcast, but you did both. So thank you so much for your time.
1:31.7	Thanks for the invitation. And I look forward to seeing what you have in store for me.
1:37.7	You're about to start your semester right now. What year is this for you as a professor?
1:42.9	It's hard to calculate because I, well, I guess I've been
1:45.9	teaching since 1986. Oh my word. Okay. And what's your current position right now and title?
1:52.8	I'm a research professor of systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School,
1:58.0	currently in Deerfield, Illinois. And you have, I mean, you were that Ted's before and had a stint, Wheaton, is that right,
2:06.0	in between? And then back to Ted's.
2:07.8	Oh, I've, I've been back and forth to Ted's three times.
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