Graduate Theological Union
Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs
John Dillenberger Professor of Christian Spirituality
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1986

Ph.D., Duke University, 1987
M.Div., The General Theological Seminary, 1976
A.B., Duke University, 1973

Phone: 510/649-2440
E-mail: aholder@gtu.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• History of Christian Spirituality
• Christian Spirituality as an Academic Discipline
• Anglo-Saxon Spirituality
• Celtic Spirituality
• Benedictine Spirituality
• Medieval Christian Exegesis of the Song of Songs

Selected Publications

• Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality, ed., 2005.
• “The Feminine Christ in Bede’s Biblical Commentaries,” in Bède le Vénérable entre tradition et postérité, ed. S.Lebecq, M. Perrin, and O.Szerwiniack, Brepols, 2005.
• "Whitby and All That: The Search for Anglican Origins." Anglican Theological Review, 2003.
• "Sermons of Columbanus," in Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice, ed. R. Valantasis, Princeton University Press, 2000.
• Bede: A Biblical Miscellany, (with W. Trent Foley), Liverpool University Press, 1998.
• Bede: On the Tabernacle, Liverpool University Press, 1994.