David Kelsey

David Kelsey

04.08.1966 (58 gadi) (Palo Alto, California, USA)

David H. Kelsey (born 1932) is an American theologian and academic. He is 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 was a member of the faculty at Yale Divinity School from 1965 until his retirement in 2005. His major work on theological anthropology, Eccentric Existence, was released in 2009. In 2011, he delivered the Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 2012, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Tübingen in Germany. This honor is rarely conferred upon international scholars.