David Kelsey
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David H Kelsey is Luther Weigle Professor Emeritus of Theology at Yale Divinity School
. Like his colleagues Hans Frei
and George Lindbeck
, David Kelsey received both a BD (1958) and PhD (1964) from Yale, and he has taught theology at Yale Divinity School since 1965.
In 2011, he delivered the Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary
.
Yale Divinity School
Yale Divinity School is a professional school at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. preparing students for ordained or lay ministry, or for the academy...
. Like his colleagues Hans Frei
Hans Wilhelm Frei
Hans Wilhelm Frei is best known for work on biblical hermeneutics, especially on the interpretation of narrative...
and George Lindbeck
George Lindbeck
George Arthur Lindbeck is an American Lutheran theologian. He is best known as an ecumenicist and as one of the fathers of postliberal theology.-Early life and education:...
, David Kelsey received both a BD (1958) and PhD (1964) from Yale, and he has taught theology at Yale Divinity School since 1965.
In 2011, he delivered the Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton Theological Seminary is a theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church located in the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey in the United States...
.
Selected Works
- The Uses of Scripture in Recent Theology, (London: SCM Press, 1975)
- ‘Biblical narrative and theological anthropology’, in Garrett Green, ed, Scriptural Authority and Narrative Interpretation, (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987)
- To Understand God Truly: What’s Theological About Theological Education?, (Westminster John Knox Press, 1992)
- Between Athens and Berlin: The Theological Education Debate, (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1993)
- Imagining Redemption, (Westminster John Knox Press, 2005)
- ‘Personal Bodies: A Theological Anthropological Proposal’, in Richard Lints, Michael S Horton, Mark R Talbot, eds, Personal Identity in Theological Perspective, (Grand Rapids, MI: William B Eerdmans, 2006)
- ‘The Human Creature’, in John Webster, Kathryn Tanner and Iain Torrance, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
- Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology, (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009)
Further reading
- David Kelsey’s CV (dating from December 2005): http://www.yale.edu/divinity/cv/DKELSEY.pdf
- Modern Theology’s January 2011 edition was entirely devoted to a symposium on Eccentric Existence