Dr Timothy Kelly
Research Fellow
Timothy Kelly is currently Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the International Theological Institute (Catholic University – ITI) in 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 formerly director of undergraduate theological studies at the Maryvale Institute, UK, and Dean of Studies at the ITI in Austria.
Dr Kelly teaches courses on the Blessed Trinity in the writings of the Fathers and Thomas Aquinas, Patristic and Thomistic Christology, Sacramental theology, Ecclesiology, Soteriology, the theology of Revelation, and the theology of Grace.
He is the author of articles and papers on Patristic and Thomistic studies and on the theology of the 19th century theologians Matthias Scheeben and John Henry Newman. His most recent work is ‘Wounded I Sing’: the Song of Songs and the Incarnation of the Son of God (Os Justi Press, 2026), due to appear in the summer of 2026. He divides his time between Austria and Oxford, where he lives with his wife and six children.
Select Publications: ‘Wounded I Sing’: the Song of Songs and the Incarnation of the Son of God (Os Justi Press, 2026); ‘The Christology of Irenaeus of Lyons’ in St Irenaeus of Lyons (Königshausen u. Neumann, 2025); ‘Revelation’ ‘in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 4th ed. (OUP, 2022); ‘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); ‘St Thomas’ Doctrine of Eucharistic Concomitance: A Certain Theology of the Body’ in Sicut Cervus Desiderat Ad fontes: Essays in Honor of Michael Maria Waldstein (Emmaus Academic Press, 2026 -forthcoming).