Background
Joseph Kelly was born on August 13, 1945, in New York, United States. He is the son of James Patrick and Marion Rita (Gleason) Kelly.
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Kelly got his Bachelor of Arts from Boston College in 1967.
140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, United States
Kelly got his Bachelor of Arts from Boston College in 1967.
(This book is intended to meet a need. New Testament class...)
This book is intended to meet a need. New Testament classes rightly concentrate on exegesis, and because of the vast amount of material just on that, teachers often do not have the opportunity to spend time on other matters relating to the New Testament. Furthermore, there is no convenient book to use to cover these. But students will still ask questions about why there are just twenty-seven books in the New Testament or about how we can be sure that we know exactly what Paul or Luke wrote.
https://www.amazon.com/Why-There-Testament-Joseph-Kelly/dp/0894535390/ref=sr_1_14?dchild=1&keywords=Joseph+F.+Kelly&qid=1608111862&sr=8-14
1986
(Like every lost world, the world of the early Christians ...)
Like every lost world, the world of the early Christians was a combination of the foreign and the familiar, the unique, and the commonplace. In The World of the Early Christians, Joseph Kelly introduces and explains the world of the early Christians, and while he examines the differences between our two societies, he also stresses our similarities. The early Christians were people, like us, trying to make their way in life. There are many introductions to the world of the early Christians, but few if any deal with its historical background and the basic questions non-specialists ask: Why did the Christians use philosophy at all? Didn't it make everything confusing? Why didn't they just stay with the Bible? In The World of the Early Christians, Kelly answers such preliminary questions and concentrates on the fundamental issue of why Christians used philosophy, rather than simply listing the philosophies they used.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Early-Christians-Fathers-Church/dp/0814653138/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Joseph+F.+Kelly&qid=1608111529&sr=8-4
1997
(The question of evil presents a profound challenge to hum...)
The question of evil presents a profound challenge to humanity - why do we do what we know to be wrong? This is especially a challenge to religious believers. Why doesn't an all-good and omnipotent God step in and put an end to evil? The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition examines how Western thinkers have dealt with the problem of evil, starting in ancient Israel and tracing the question through post-biblical Judaism, Early Christianity (especially in Africa), the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and to the twenty-first century when science has raised new and important issues.
https://www.amazon.com/Problem-Evil-Western-Tradition-Scripture/dp/0814651046/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&keywords=Joseph+F.+Kelly&qid=1608111862&sr=8-10
2002
https://www.amazon.com/Responding-Evil-Joseph-F-Kelly/dp/0814629660/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=Joseph+F.+Kelly&qid=1608111862&sr=8-8
2003
https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Christmas-Joseph-Kelly-PhD/dp/0814648606/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Joseph+F.+Kelly&qid=1608111529&sr=8-2
2004
(In this pilgrimage through church history, Joseph Kelly p...)
In this pilgrimage through church history, Joseph Kelly provides a colorful, graphic representation of the events and people of the Roman Catholic Church and puts in hand a wealth of historical information in a clear, easy-to-access format. Adults and young adults will find The Collegeville Church History Time-Line an invaluable tool as they encounter numerous examples of change in the remarkable history of the Catholic church. Kelly examines how the Roman Catholic Church has not just survived but flourished through 2,000 years as it strives to make Jesus Christ a presence in the world. He focuses on how the church has developed historically and will continue to do so. The timeline begins in the era of Jesus, leads through a history of Christianity including Constantine's conversion in the fourth century, to the growth of the papacy in the twelfth-century, to Vatican II and the election of John F. Kennedy in the twentieth-century, and ends with the state of the church in the twenty-first century. Twenty-four pages of text explain the eras delineated on the time-line and provide fuller details regarding important people and events.
https://www.amazon.com/Collegeville-Church-History-Time-Line/dp/0814628346/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=Joseph+F.+Kelly&qid=1608111529&sr=8-7
2005
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-New-Testament-Catholics/dp/0814652166/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=Joseph+F.+Kelly&qid=1608111529&sr=8-5
2006
https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Jesus-according-Gospels/dp/0814629482/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=Joseph+F.+Kelly&qid=1608111862&sr=8-9
2008
https://www.amazon.com/Ecumenical-Councils-Catholic-Church-History/dp/0814653766/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Joseph+F.+Kelly&qid=1608111529&sr=8-3
2009
(Many Christians struggle to balance the religious and sec...)
Many Christians struggle to balance the religious and secular elements of Christmas, but the history of the feast shows that this is nothing new. The religious Christmas has changed over the centuries and, contrary to many critics, is thriving today. This brief, accessible account will explain that: The first Christians did not celebrate Christmas at all. The earliest mention of the feast occurs in the fourth century. In the Middle Ages Christmas moved into northern Europe where it became a major winter festival, competing with the pagan Yule. During the sixteenth century, some Christians objected to Christmas because they claimed it had no biblical foundation. In England and New England, the Puritans made it a crime to celebrate it! The modern secular Christmas arose in the nineteenth century, but the religious Christmas continued to grow in popularity and meshed well with the developing emphasis on Christmas as a day for family and friends. In today's world, rampant consumerism threatens the religious Christmas, but it continues not only to survive but to flourish, taking on new life and new forms.
https://www.amazon.com/Feast-Christmas-Joseph-F-Kelly/dp/0814633250/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Joseph+F.+Kelly&qid=1608111529&sr=8-1
2010
(God is beyond time, but every person is firmly planted in...)
God is beyond time, but every person is firmly planted in it. History impacts us endlessly, including the ways we understand the church and its teachings. This has been the case since the time of the earliest believers. In History and Heresy, Joseph F. Kelly considers heresies and the historical forces that shaped them. In his customarily engaging style, he demonstrates that historical forces and human beings of particular historical eras play a major role in how both orthodoxy and heresy come into being and how they are understood.
https://www.amazon.com/History-Heresy-Historical-Doctrinal-Conflicts/dp/0814656951/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=Joseph+F.+Kelly&qid=1608111529&sr=8-6
2012
(How does the Bible's teaching on the devil square with ps...)
How does the Bible's teaching on the devil square with psychology and other modern scientific disciplines that seem to have driven Satan into the realm of myth? Why does 666 signify the devil? Is Satan the Antichrist or does that term refer to a human? These are legitimate questions because many popular writers and filmmakers have combined a number of diverse traditions, distorting Christian teaching and tradition about Satan and also occasionally distorting common sense.
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Satan-Joseph-Kelly-PhD/dp/0814635164/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=Joseph+F.+Kelly&qid=1608111862&sr=8-11
2013
Joseph Kelly was born on August 13, 1945, in New York, United States. He is the son of James Patrick and Marion Rita (Gleason) Kelly.
Kelly got his Bachelor of Arts from Boston College in 1967. He also received a Master of Arts in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 from Fordham University.
Joseph Francis Kelly began his career as an instructor of theology at Molloy College, Rockville Center, New York from 1969 to 1972. He then was an assistant professor and since 1982 he is a professor of theology at John Carroll University. He also served as a chairman from 1985 to 1995.
His first book, Why Is There a New Testament? was published in 1986. It is an account of the process which resulted in the recognition of the canonical Christian Scriptures during the fourth century. He addresses not the writing of the texts but the way in which they came together as the New Testament.
Kelly's The Concise Dictionary of Early Christianity (1992) covers the first six centuries and concentrates on "people, movements, and terms that will be of most interest to the reader." In addition to Christian issues, Kelly touches on subjects that provide a clearer understanding of Christianity. He uses asterisks for easy cross-referencing and includes a bibliography and a list of popes and emperors.
Kelly wrote The World of Early Christians (1997), the first volume of Liturgical Press's "Message of the Fathers of the Church" series. It is an introductory history of the first six centuries of Christianity, and Kelly studies the sources that provide knowledge of this period. Although the book is divided into thematically arranged chapters, Kelly does provide a chronology, as well as a bibliography. Among his topics are the relationships between Christians and other groups, including pagans, Jews, astrologers, magicians, philosophers, and internal dissenters. One chapter addresses cultural life, and another looks at the Christian view of women, war, slavery, and poverty.
The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition: From the Book of Job to Modern Genetics (2002) is divided into six chronological sections, covering four thousand years, and features the views of approximately 150 writers, painters, poets, theologians, and philosophers on the subject of evil. Kelly studies his subject, "the deliberate imposition of suffering by a human being on another sentient being" as it is treated in the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Patristic period (St. Augustine), the Middle Ages (Dante), the Reformation and Renaissance (Luther and Calvin), the Enlightenment, and the modern period. The writers he has chosen include Newton, Milton, Leibniz, Hume, Rousseau, Gibbon, Voltaire, Nietzsche, and Darwin; novelists Mary Shelley, Dostoyevsky, and Goethe; and social scientists Freud and Jung. Many of the classics Kelly has chosen to study have evil as their theme.
(How does the Bible's teaching on the devil square with ps...)
2013(In this pilgrimage through church history, Joseph Kelly p...)
2005(The question of evil presents a profound challenge to hum...)
2002(Many Christians struggle to balance the religious and sec...)
2010(Like every lost world, the world of the early Christians ...)
1997(God is beyond time, but every person is firmly planted in...)
2012(This book is intended to meet a need. New Testament class...)
1986Although Joseph is a believing Roman Catholic, he cannot reconcile the existence of a good God with the existence of evil.
Kelly is a member of the Democratic party.
Joseph is a member of the North American Patristic Society, Medieval Academy of America, and American Society Church History.
Kelly married Ellen Marie Murray on August 17, 1968. The couple has three children: Robert, Amy, and Alicia.
