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    Douglas Kelly

    contemporaryReformed Theology

    b. 1943

    Douglas F. Kelly is a Reformed theologian and Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is known for his defense of young-earth creationism and his multi-volume systematic theology rooted in the Westminster Confession. His work engages classical Reformed doctrine with contemporary scientific and philosophical debates surrounding creation and divine action.

    Notable Achievements

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    Authored 'Creation and Change' (1997), a theological defense of young-earth creationism engaging scientific paradigms

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    Wrote the multi-volume 'Systematic Theology: Grounded in Holy Scripture and Understood in Light of the Church'

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    Developed Reformed theological arguments for direct divine creative intervention in the origin of material reality

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    Longtime professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte

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    Contributed to Presbyterian and Reformed engagement with philosophy of science and origins debates

    Positions & Arguments(1)

    Natural Theology

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    Divine creative intervention is not causally necessary for the nonconservative appearance of new matter in steady-state cosmology.

    Causation

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    Divine creative intervention is not causally necessary for the nonconservative appearance of new matter in steady-state cosmology.

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    Causation1
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