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Originally Posted by Ivanhoe Oh wait,
Douglas Kelly, PhD, somewhere in Scotland. | A PhD in what? |
I don't know. Table-tennis, probably. I understand the question. I think you want to imply the following: "A PhD is nice, sure, but unless he has a PhD in Old testament/Hebrew, then he must take a backseat to the other scholars."
I don't buy that logic for one minute. Luther overthrew the Roman priesthood. What we are seeing today is the priesthood of the scholar, be he theologue or scientist.
Kelly's PhD is probably in systematic theology, which would make him an ideal polemicist. A systematician would have a broader understanding of presuppositions (including Kline's dualistic, quasi-neo Platonic framework) going into the debate.