Rate My Professor Christopher Holmes

Revd Professor Christopher R. J. Holmes is Professor in Systematic Theology in the Theology Programme at the University of Otago. He holds a ThD and an MRel from Wycliffe College and the University of Toronto, with his doctoral research focusing on the doctrine of God's perfections in Karl Barth and interpreters Eberhard Jüngel and Wolf Krötke. An ordained minister and systematic theologian, he has built a distinguished career through rigorous scholarship, teaching, and supervision of postgraduate students.

Holmes has authored over fifty book chapters and journal articles, alongside six monographs: Revisiting the Doctrine of the Divine Attributes: In Dialogue with Karl Barth, Eberhard Jüngel, and Wolf Krötke (Peter Lang, 2007), Ethics in the Presence of Christ (T&T Clark, 2012), The Holy Spirit (Zondervan Academic, 2015), The Lord is Good: Seeking the God of the Psalter (IVP Academic, 2018), A Theology of the Christian Life: Imitating and Participating in God (Baker Academic, 2021), and Hearing and Doing: The Speeches in Acts and the Essence of Christianity (Baylor University Press, 2022). His forthcoming work, Hebrews: God, Christ, and the Unity of Scripture, is scheduled for publication by Baylor University Press in 2027. Recent contributions include the chapter 'The commentary on the Psalms' in the T&T Clark Handbook of Biblical Thomism (2026) and the article 'What theological commitments structure loving attention to Moses's law?' in New Blackfriars (2025). His research specializations encompass a variety of Christian doctrines, especially the doctrine of God and the doctrine of creation, conducted in dialogue with thinkers from the classical Christian tradition, anchored in Holy Scripture, and oriented toward edifying the Christian community. Holmes supervises doctoral candidates in areas such as the doctrine of God, the Trinity, pneumatology, and Christology, and teaches advanced courses including CHTH416 The Theology of Bonhoeffer. His expertise covers the Christian theological tradition, God, the Trinity, Jesus Christ, the Church, and the Old and New Testaments.