Douglas F. Kelly's Systematic Theology

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It was six years between the publication of Volume 1 (2008) and Volume 2 (2014). It has now been five years since Volume 2 was published.

Will Volume 3 be coming out soon? And there's supposed to be a fourth volume after that (at 66, I should live so long!)

I've sent an email to Christian Focus Publications to see if they have any information. Does anyone on the board know anything about how he's progressing?
 
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I remember him saying it takes him longer to do these since he spends a lot of time on exegesis.

How are the first two? I dont hear them talked about much.
 
I remember him saying it takes him longer to do these since he spends a lot of time on exegesis.

How are the first two? I dont hear them talked about much.

Excellent. Lots of quotations from other theologians, showing deep dives into church history. This is going to be a very thoughtfully written series. Too bad it's taking him so long - but I guess that's the price you pay for the "thoughtfully written" part.
 
I did not like volume 1. The quotes from the Early Church Fathers were great to begin with, but by the time you got to the end of the volume if felt as if you had just read a calendar of quotations. For that reason, I did not bother reading volume 2.
 
I had Dr. Kelly for three systematics classes through RTS Global. He shared lots of stories and from them it sounds like he is a busy guy that gets called on frequently to speak. I think he retired from RTS Charlotte in the last couple of years.

He definitely has his own way about how he approaches things so it doesn't surprise me that comes out in his systematics.
 
He quotes TF Torrance very heavily which I thought was unusual and I’m not sure how that has effected his theology. He was a student of Torrance I believe. Maybe someone more familiar with Torrance could say more. Kelly’s iTunes U RTS online systematic course is really good and even devotional which is why I bought and read the 2 volume ST.
 
Yes, he did talk about Torrence now and then and I think assigned one of his books but he also assigned Bavinck's Doctrine of God (Hendriksen version) and Berkhof's Systematic quite a bit. I will always be grateful to him to introducing me to Bavinck and Berkhof.
 
He quotes TF Torrance very heavily which I thought was unusual and I’m not sure how that has effected his theology. He was a student of Torrance I believe. Maybe someone more familiar with Torrance could say more. Kelly’s iTunes U RTS online systematic course is really good and even devotional which is why I bought and read the 2 volume ST.

Two volumes down, two volumes to go.
 
He quotes TF Torrance very heavily which I thought was unusual and I’m not sure how that has effected his theology. He was a student of Torrance I believe. Maybe someone more familiar with Torrance could say more. Kelly’s iTunes U RTS online systematic course is really good and even devotional which is why I bought and read the 2 volume ST.

Thomas F. Torrance (1913-2007) studied under Karl Barth in the late 1930s and could, I think, be described as mildly Bartian, as he was willing to criticize his mentor on subjects on which he differed from Barth. Torrance's book The Christian Doctrine of God: One Being, Three Persons (1996) is superb.
 
He quotes TF Torrance very heavily which I thought was unusual and I’m not sure how that has effected his theology. He was a student of Torrance I believe. Maybe someone more familiar with Torrance could say more. Kelly’s iTunes U RTS online systematic course is really good and even devotional which is why I bought and read the 2 volume ST.

He has to quote Torrance. When it comes to Patristic theology and Athanasius, Torrance is the master.

And to quote Robert Letham, Torrance is too powerful a thinker to be reduced to "Barthian."
 
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