Austin Foley Holmes

Professor Austin Foley Holmes joined LMU after completing a Ph.D. in the History of Christianity and Historical Theology at Boston College. His primary area of research and scholarship is Patristics / Early Christianity.

Professor Foley Holmes is completing a monograph on the Contemplative Life and the Political Life in Early Christian Theology (a study of third and fourth century Patristic sources, beginning with Origen of Alexandria). He is also translating two fourth-century commentaries on the Psalms by Ambrose of Milan: the Expositio Psalmi CXVIII and the Explanatio Psalmorum XII. Alongside these two larger projects, he continues research and writing on other topics in the History of Christianity—especially Christology in the Latin Patristic tradition, from Hilary to Augustine (ca. 360–430).

His teaching at LMU has included undergraduate and graduate courses such as "The Contemplative Life," "Ancient Monasticism," "Foundations of Historical Theology," and "Last Things: Eschatology."