David Kelsey

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David H. Kelsey (born 1932 [1] ) is an American theologian and academic.

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Kelsey is a graduate of Haverford College and currently Luther Weigle Professor Emeritus of Theology at Yale Divinity School. Like his colleagues Hans Frei and George Lindbeck, Kelsey received both a BD (1958) and PhD (1964) from Yale. He taught in the Religion Department of Dartmouth College from 1961 to 1965 and was a member of the faculty at Yale Divinity School from 1965 until his retirement in 2005. [1] In 2017 he held The Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair on the Life and Teachings of Jesus and their Impact on Culture, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta GA.

He has delivered the Thomas White Currie Lectures at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1982, the Sarum Lectures, Oxford University, during Trinity Term 1985, the Tate-Wilson Lectures, Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in 1986, the Taylor Lectures, Yale Divinity School in 2004, and in 2011 the Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary.

In 2012, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Tübingen in Germany. [2] This honor is rarely conferred upon international scholars.

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References

  1. 1 2 Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Craig G. Bartholomew, Daniel J. Treier, Dictionary for theological interpretation of the Bible, (2005), p860. ISBN   978-0-8010-2694-2
  2. Yale University. "Notes from the Quad". Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved July 1, 2012.

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