JEREMY R. HOLMES
[email protected]
Personal website: drandmrsholmes.com
Curriculum vitae as of December 2016
WORK
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Doctoral
coursework completed with a GPA of 4.0. Dissertation defended in March 2007,
“Matthew’s Vision: The Formula Citations in Matt 1:1-4:16.” Directed by Dr.
Deirdre Dempsey.
S.T.M., Sacrae Theologiae Magister (Master of Sacred Theology), International
Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, Gaming, Austria,
2001. Graduated Summa cum laude with a GPA of 9.8 on a scale of 10.
B.A., Liberal Arts, Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California, 1999. GPA 4.0.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Biblical studies; hermeneutics and theological exegesis; history and theory of patristic
and medieval exegesis; Thomistic philosophy and theology in all the major branches;
fundamental dogmatic and moral theology; Latin.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate courses
 Fall, Redemption, and Eternal Life (WCC, Fall 2016)
 Life in Christ: Catholic Social Teaching (WCC, Spring 2014)
 The Church, Universal Sacrament of Salvation (WCC, multiple times)
 Creation and Providence (WCC, Spring 2011)
 The Mystery of the Trinity (WCC, multiple times)
 Humanities 102: Ancient Greeks (WCC, Spring 2010)
 Philosophy of Nature (WCC, Fall 2009)
 The Mystery of the Incarnation (WCC, Fall 2009)
 Latin 102 (WCC, 2010)
 Latin 101 (WCC, 2009)
 Revelation, Faith, and Reason (WCC, multiple times)
 Salvation History (WCC, multiple times)
 Sacred Scripture (AMU, Spring 2007 and Fall 2007)
 Senior Theology Seminar (AMU, Spring 2007)
Graduate courses
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Synoptic Gospels (The Aquinas Institute, Summer 2008)
Gospel of Matthew (Ave Maria University, Fall 2007)
Introduction to the New Testament (Ave Maria University, Spring 2007)
Christ and Salvation (Ave Maria University, Fall 2006)
Patristic and Medieval Exegesis (Ave Maria University, Fall 2006)
Introductory Latin (International Theological Institute, Spring 2001)
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Assistant Dean, Wyoming Catholic College (2015)
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Working with learning disabled students and other students with special
needs
Maintenance of candidacy for regional accreditation
Academic Dean, Wyoming Catholic College (2011-2013)
 Research and design of faculty peer review and evaluation system based on
current leadership theory and the perennial philosophy of friendship
 Research on current student assessment standards and their relationship to
classical rhetorical theory, together with the practical implementation of both
 Work on national and regional institutional accreditation
 Member ex officio of the Wyoming Catholic College Board of Directors
PUBLICATIONS
Institutional
2012
Appendix I to the Wyoming Catholic College Philosophical Vision
Statement, “The Outdoor Leadership Program of Wyoming Catholic
College.”
2012
Appendix II to the Wyoming Catholic College Philosophical Vision
Statement, “Technology and Catholic Liberal Education.”
Scholarly Articles
2015
“Participation and the Meaning of Scripture,” in Piotr Roszak and Jörgen
Vijgen, eds., Reading Sacred Scripture with Thomas Aquinas: Hermeneutical Tools,
Theological Questions and New Perspectives (Textes et Études du Moyen Âge 80;
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2015), 91-113.
2013
“Matthew as Exegete,” Letter & Spirit. 2012-2013, Vol. 8: 55-76.
2012
“Tradition and the Individual Exegete,” in Nova et Vetera (English Edition).
Winter 2015, Vol. 13 Issue 1: 241-251.
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2010
“Weight on the Lord: Sin as Burden in the New Testament and Beyond,”
Nova et Vetera 9/1 (Winter 2011): 123-131.
2007
“St. Thomas’s Commentary on Phil 2:5-11: A New Translation with
Introduction and Notes,” in Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering,
editors, Wisdom and Holiness, Science and Scholarship: Essays in Honor of Matthew
L. Lamb (Naples, FL: Sapientia, 2007): 109-141.
2005
"St. Thomas Aquinas on the Gospel of Matthew," in Thomas G. Weinandy
et alia, eds., Aquinas on Scripture (London: T & T Clark, 2005): 73-97.
2003
Co-authored “From Aristotle to Jefferson: Christianity and the Separation of
Church and State,” The Catholic Social Science Review 8 (2003): 141-150 (peer
reviewed). Posted online at
http://www.catholicsocialscientists.org/cssr2003/Holmes%20article.pdf
2003
“Biblical Scholarship New and Old: Learning from the Past,” Nova et Vetera
1/1 (Fall 2002): 303-320 (peer reviewed). Posted online at
http://iti.ac.at/publications/pdfs/Holmes_Biblical_Scholarship.pdf
2002
“The Spiritual Sense of Scripture,” The Downside Review 120/419 (April 2002),
113-128.
Translations
2008
Edited Fabian Larcher’s translation of Aquinas’s Commentary on Romans for
use at the Aquinas Conference at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida.
Available online at http://www.aquinas.avemaria.edu.
2007
Translation of Hans Urs von Balthasar's “Die Heilige Schrift” with
introduction, Nova et Vetera 5/4 (2007): 707-724.
2007
Translation of and introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas's Lectura in
Matthaeum. The translation was edited for use by the Aquinas Institute and
published in 2013. Paul M. Kimball used my introduction for his translation
of the same work published in 2012.
2007
“The Ladder Between Heaven and Earth,” a translation with notes of Guigo
II’s Scala paradisum, in Letter and Spirit 2 (2007): 175-188.
2005
Translation of “Emitte Spiritum,” by St. Thomas Aquinas, co-translated with
Peter Kwasniewski, Faith and Reason 30 (2005): 99-139. Posted online at
http://www.diafrica.org/nigeriaop/kenny/CDtexts/SermEmitte.htm#text
2002
Translation of St. Thomas Aquinas's treatise on the Sacraments in the Summa
Theologiae. This translation has not been published, but has been used as the
primary text in a course at the International Theological Institute.
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Reviews
2010
Joel B. Green, Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible, in
the Catholic Biblical Quarterly 72 (2010): 826-827.
2009
Stanley D. Walters, ed., Go Figure! Figuration in Biblical Interpretation, in The
Catholic Biblical Quarterly 71/1 ( January 2009): 226-8.
2007
Romanus Cessario, A Short History of Thomism, in The Catholic Historical Review
93/2 (April 2007): 393-395.
Lectures or Scholarly Presentations
2015
Lecture to Wyoming Catholic College faculty and students, “Memory and
Eternity: The Christian Importance of Narrative.”
2013
Lecture at the Augustine Institute in Denver, CO, “The Cursing Psalms and
Christian Prayer.”
2012
Lecture to Thomas Aquinas College faculty and students, “Genesis 1-11 and
Science.”
2012
Conference presentation at Ave Maria University, “Tradition and the
Individual Exegete.”
2010
Nova & Vetera conference presentation, “Weight on the Lord: Sin as Burden
in the New Testament and Beyond.”
2009
Lecture to Thomas Aquinas College faculty and students, “The Formula
Citations in Matthew’s Gospel.”
2008
Lecture to Saint Paul Center graduate program in Steubenville, OH,
“Nominalism and Biblical Exegesis.”
2007
Lecture to Wyoming Catholic College faculty and students, “The Cursing
Psalms and the Rule of Charity.”
2007
Presentation at the 2007 meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association,
“Spiritual Senses of Scripture in John 4.”
2006
Lecture to Ave Maria University faculty and students, “Matthew as Spiritual
Exegete.”
2006
Lecture to Thomas Aquinas College faculty and students, “Participation and
Exegesis.”
2004
Lecture to the Milwaukee Chapter of Catholics United for the Faith,
“Purgatory and Punishment.”
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2003
Address given as part of the Marquette Biblical Theology Colloquia Series,
“Matthew's Formula Citations and the New Exodus.”
2002
Engaged by the Diocese of Little Rock to give a lecture to their deaconal
candidates on "The Historical-Critical Method." Little Rock, Arkansas, 2002.
Popular Publications
2015
A song for which I wrote the lyrics, “David’s Town,” was released on an
Advent CD by Wyoming Catholic College.
2014
The song “David’s Town” was published in Peter Kwasniewski, Sacred Choral
Works (Corpus Christi Watershed: 2014), and performed in Scotland by the
vocal ensemble Cantiones Sacrae. The same book by Peter Kwasniewski
included a choral setting of another of my poems, “Surgamus et
aedificemus.”
2007
“Our Passover Eucharist,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review 107/11 (2007): 22-29.
2005
“Die Genesis ist ein Buch,” Theologisches 35/4 (April 2005): 235-246.
Translation by Fr. Markus Christoph of “Genesis is a Book.”
2005
"Purgatory and Punishment," Homiletic and Pastoral Review 105/5 (2005): 28-31
and 44-48.
2003
Review of G. K. Chesterton, “Saint Thomas Aquinas: 'The Dumb Ox',” Lay
Witness Magazine, May/June 2003, 48-49.
2003
“St. Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review 103/6
(2003): 24-32.
1999
“Jim Dawson's Secessionist Movement,” in To Life: A Collection of Editorials
and Columns on Abortion, Life and Choice, by Paul Greenberg and other writers
for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
1999), 87-89.
1998
“Genesis is a Book,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review 98/5 (1998): 22-32.
Online Articles
2013
“Remembering the Saints,” at New Liturgical Movement.
2005
Article made available on the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology webpage,
"Chance or the Original Order of Q: Vincent Taylor Goes to Vegas."
(www.salvationhistory.com/mission/staff/HolmesOriginalOrderofQ.pdf)
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2013/10/guest-article-rememberingsaints.html#.VjJ1mzZdEcQ
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2005
Article made available on the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology webpage,
"What Is the Bible?"
(www.salvationhistory.com/mission/staff/HolmesWhatistheBible.pdf)
Works in Progress
2016
I am close to finishing a monograph on the theology of Scripture, tentatively
titled She Appeared upon Earth and Lived Among Men: The Nature and Purpose of
Scripture.
2015
I completed a middle-grade novel titled The Robot’s Maker. It awaits review
by literary agents.
SERVICE
Secretary and Member of the Board of Directors of the Lander Care and Share
Foodbank, beginning October of 2015.
CCD teacher for Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Parish, 2015.
Book and film discussion moderator for the Wyoming Humanities Council, 2009present.
Talk given as part of the Year of the Eucharist program of the Diocese of Little
Rock: “Eucharistic Boot Camp.” Little Rock, AR, 2005.
Taught religious education for 7th and 8th graders. St. Augustine's Parish in the
Diocese of Milwaukee, WI, 2004-2005.
Co-led the Little Rock Scripture Studies program on the Acts of the Apostles. Gesu
Parish in the Diocese of Milwaukee, WI, 2004.
Taught confirmation class on “Purgatory and Aliens.” St. Florian’s Parish in the
Diocese of Milwaukee, WI, 2004.
Taught confirmation class on “The Ethics of Human Cloning.” St. Florian’s Parish
in the Diocese of Milwaukee, WI, 2003.
PERSONAL
I was born in 1976 in North Carolina, but spent much of my childhood two miles
outside the tiny town of Redfield, Arkansas. My family entered the Catholic Church
when I was twelve years old, just before my father began what turned out to be a
two-year period of teaching at Thomas Aquinas College in California. When I
returned there for my undergraduate formation, I met and married Jacinta (Bolin)
Holmes. Over the past fifteen years of marriage we have had seven children:
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Bernadette (16), David (14), Isaiah (12), Regina (11), Teresa (9), Faustina (6) and
Matthew (1), and we are expecting an eight. Outside of my professional work, I
enjoy writing of all kinds, piano and voice, and amateur woodworking.