Declan Kelly

University of Aberdeen

Declan is originally from Galway, Ireland, and currently lives and works in Aberdeen. He was recently appointed as a Gifford Postdoc at the University of Aberdeen, and also serves as managing editor for the Cambridge Elements of Christian Doctrine  He received his Masters from Queen’s University Belfast before moving to Aberdeen for his doctoral studies in 2015. A revised version of doctoral thesis was published in 2022 as The Defeat of Satan: Karl Barth’s Three-Agent Account of Salvation as part of the T&T Clark series “Explorations in Reformed Theology.” Declan is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, the latest of which is on dialectical theology for the T&T Clark Handbook of Modern Theology. His current research focuses on the doctrine of evil in Karl Barth’s early writings.