Kenneth S. Kantzer (1917-2002), born in Detroit, was a Christian theologian and educator. Kantzer received a master's degree in modern history from Ohio State University, continued his schooling at Faith Theological Seminary, and earned a doctorate in Philosophy and Religion from Harvard University (1950). He was an ordained minister in the Evangelical Free Church of America and professor of biblical and systematic theology and academic dean of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield) from 1960-1978.