Dr Timothy Kelly
Fellow
Timothy Kelly lectures at Blackfriars and is Associate Professor of dogmatic theology at the Internationales Theologisches Institut (Catholic University – ITI), Trumau, Austria. After studies in English literature at the University of Bristol and philosophical and theological studies in Austria and Rome, Dr Kelly completed his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, writing on the Christology and Sacramentology of Cyril of Alexandria and Thomas Aquinas in relation to ecclesial communion. He was formally director of undergraduate theological studies at the Maryvale Institute, UK, and Dean of Studies at the International Theological Institute, Austria.
Dr Kelly teaches courses on the Trinity in the writings of the Fathers and Thomas Aquinas, Patristic and Thomistic Christology, Sacramental theology, Ecclesiology, Soteriology, and the theology of Grace.
He is the author of articles and papers on Patristic and Thomistic studies and on the theology of Matthias Scheeben and John Henry Newman. His most recent work is Bridal Church and Eucharistic Bridegroom: A Key to Interpreting the Song of Songs (Os Justi Press, 2025). He divides his time between Austria and Oxford, where he lives with his wife and six children.
Select Publications:Bridal Church and Eucharistic Bridegroom: A Key to Interpreting the Song of Songs (Os Justi Press, 2025); ‘An Activity of Special, Supernatural and Extraordinary Beneficence and Love: Matthias Scheeben’s Theology of Deification’ (in Called to be Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification, Ignatius Press, 2016); Christ and the Church: Duo in Carne Una (Fribourg, 2011); Forthcoming: ‘Anscar Vonier’ in Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 4th ed. (OUP); ‘St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort’ in Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 4th ed. (OUP).