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 Patristic Theology and Christian Late Antiquity (ca. 200–800).

Professor Foley Holmes is completing a monograph on the Contemplative Life and the Political Life in third and fourth-century Christianity. He is also translating two fourth-century commentaries on the Psalms by Ambrose of Milan: the Expositio Psalmi CXVIII and the Explanatio Psalmorum XII. He continues research and writing on other topics in Historical and Catholic Theology, especially the Mystical tradition.

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."