Steve Holmes is senior lecturer in theology at St. Andrew's University (2005-). He was formerly lecturer in theology at King's College London (1998-2005) and is still an associate lecturer at Spurgeon's College, London (1999-). He teaches in the areas of historical and systematic theology. His research interests presently focus on historical theology, particularly in the early modern period, the doctrine of atonement and the doctrine of God.
Steve did his Ph.D on the theology of Jonathan Edwards under Colin Gunton. He is an ordained Baptist minister.
B.A., M.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge; M.Th. Spurgeon's College, London; Ph.D. King's College London (1999)
He gave the 2003 Whitley Lecture, the 2007 Laing Lecture and the 2009 George Beasley-Murray Memorial Lecture.
Major Publications
___ God of Grace and God of Glory: An Account of the Theology of Jonathan Edwards (T & T Clark, 2000)
___ (ed.) Theology in Context. The occasional journal of a consultation for Baptists doing Theology (Whitley Publications, 2000)
___ ‘The Justice of Hell and the Display of God’s Glory in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards’, Pro Ecclesia 4 (2000) 389-403.
___ with Colin Gunton and Murray Rae, The Practice of Theology: A Reader (SCM, 2001)
___ ‘Something Much to Plain to Say: Towards a Defence of the Doctrine of Divine Simplicity’, Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 43 (2001)
___ ‘The Upholding of Beauty: A Reading of Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo’, Scottish Journal of Theology 54 (2001), 189-203
___ Listening to the Past: The Place of Tradition in Theology (Paternoster, 2002)
___ (with Mike Higton), ‘Meeting Scotus: On Scholasticism and its Ghosts’, International Journal of Systematic Theology 4 (2002) 67-81
___ ‘Patristic Resources for Ecumenical Dialogue’ in Dimensions of Baptism: Biblical and Theological Studies edited by Anthony R. Cross and Stanley E. Porter (Sheffield Academic Press, 2002).
___ Tradition and Renewal in Baptist Life, The 2003 Whitley Lecture (Whitley, 2003)
___ 'Towards a Baptist Theology of Ordained Ministry' in Baptist Sacramentalism edited by Anthony R. Cross and Philip E. Thompson (Paternoster, 2003), 247-262,
___ ‘On Not Muzzling Oxen: A Brief Theological Account of Ministerial Employment’ Baptist Ministers’ Journal 282 (2003)
___ ‘Shapers of Protestantism: Jonathan Edwards’ in The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism edited by Alister McGrath and Darren Marks (Blackwell, 2003)
___ ‘Does Jonathan Edwards Use a Dispositional Ontology? A Response to Sang Hyun Lee’ in Jonathan Edwards: Philosophical Theologian edited by Paul Helm and Oliver Crisp (Ashgate, 2003)
___ (ed.) with Paul Ballard, The Use of the Bible in Pastoral Practice: A Reader (DLT, 2005)
___ (ed.) with Murray Rae, The Person of Christ (T & T Clark, 2005)
___ 'Reformed Varieties of the Communicatio Idiomatum' in The Person of Christ (T & T Clark, 2005), 70-86
___ 'Can Punishment bring Peace? Penal Substitution revisited', Scottish Journal of Theology 58 (2005) 104-123
___ 'Interpreting the Gospel: The Passion of the Christ' in Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue edited by Paul Fiddes and Anthony Clarke (Smyth and Helwys, 2005)
___ 'Trinitarian Missiology: Towards a Theology of God as Missionary', International Journal of Systematic Theology 8.1 (January 2006) 72-90
___ 'Triune Creativity: Trinity, Creation, Art and Science' in Trinitarian Soundings edited by Paul L. Metzger (T & T Clark, 2006)
___ 'Work and Family, or, why does nobody think they've got it right?', Bible in TransMission, (Spring 2006)
___ 'British (and European) evangelical theologies' in The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology edited by Timothy Larsen and Daniel Treier (Cambridge, 2007)
___ 'Introduction: The Theologian as Preacher, the Preacher as Theologian' in The Theologian As Preacher: Further Sermons From Colin E. Gunton edited by Sarah Gunton and John Colwell (T & T Clark, 2007), xi-xxiii
___ 'Christology, Scripture, Divine Action and Hermeneutics' in Christology and Scripture: Interdiscplinary Perspectives edited by Andrew Lincoln and Angus Paddison (T & T Clark, 2007), 156-170
___ 'Introduction' in Colin Gunton, The Barth Lectures, edited by Paul Brazier (T & T Clark, 2007)
___ The Wondrous Cross: Atonement and Penal Substitution in the Bible and History (Paternoster, 2007)
___ 'The Attributes of God' in The Oxford Handbook to Systematic Theology edited by John Webster, Kathryn Tanner, and Iain Torrance (Oxford, 2007)
___ ‘Of Babies and Bathwater? Recent Evangelical Critiques of Penal Substitution in the light of Early Modern Debates Concerning Justification’, European Journal of Theology 16 (2007) 93-106
___ 'Introduction: The dangers of being Left Behind' in What are We Waiting For? Christian Hope and Contemporary Culture edited by Stephen Holmes and Russell Rook (Paternoster, 2008)
___ 'Ransomed, Healed, Restored, Forgiven' in The Atonement Debate edited by Derek Tidball et al (Zondervan, 2008)
___ 'Introduction' in Colin Gunton, Revelation and Reason, edited by Paul Brazier (T & T Clark, 2008)
___ 'Cur Deus Po-mo? What St Anselm can teach us about preaching the Atonement today', Epworth Review (2009) 6-17
___ 'Three verses one? Some problems of social trinitarianism', Journal of Reformed Theology 3.1 (2009), 77-89
___ 'Evangelical doctrines of Scripture in transatlantic perspective', Evangelical Quarterly 81.1 (January 2009)
___ 'The radical ecclesiology of Nigel Wright' in Challenging to Change: dialogues with a radical baptist theologian. Essays presented to Dr Nigel G. Wright on his sixtieth birthday edited by Pieter J. Lalleman (Spurgeon's College, 2009)
___ 'Death in the Afternoon: Hebrews, Sacrifice, and Soteriology' in The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology edited by Richard Bauckham, Daniel Driver & Trevor Hart (Eerdmans, 2009)
___ 'Editorial: Calvin amongst Systematicians?', International Journal of Systematic Theology 11.4 (October 2009), 375-377
___ 'The Dangers of Just Reading the Bible: Orthodoxy and Christology' in Exploring Baptist Origins edited by Anthony R. Cross and Nicholas J. Wood (Regent's Park College, 2010)
___ 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge' in The Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Theology edited by David Fergusson (Blackwell, 2010)
___ 'Towards the Analogia personae et relationis: Developments in Gunton’s Theology of the Trinity' in The Theology of Colin Gunton edited by Lincoln Harvey (T & T Clark, 2010)
___ 'Baptists and the Bible', Baptist Quarterly 43.7 (July 2010)
___ 'Editorial: Edinburgh 1910 and the Theological Task', International Journal of Systematic Theology 12.4 (October 2010), 379-281
___ (ed.) with Murray Rae and Lindsey Hall, Christian Doctrine (SCM Reader, SCM, 2010)
___ 'Soteriology and the perfections of God' in God of Salvation: Soteriology in Theological Perspective edited by Ivor Davidson and Murray Rae (Ashgate, 2011)
___ 'Knowing Together the Mind of Christ: Congregational Government and the Church Meeting' in Questions of Identity: Essays in honour of Brian Haymes edited by A. R. Cross and R. Gouldbourne (Regent's Park College, 2011)
___ with David Grumett and Luke Bretherton, 'Fast Food: A Critical Theological Perspective', Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 14.3 (September 2011)
___ 'Kings, Professors and Ploughboys: On the Accessibility of Scripture', International Journal of Systematic Theology 13.4 (October 2011)
___ The Holy Trinity: Understanding God's Life (Paternoster, 2012)
___ 'Divine Attributes' in Mapping Modern Theology: A Thematic and Historical Introduction edited by Kelly M. Kapic and Bruce L. McCormack (Baker, 2012)
___ Baptist Theology (Doing Theology Series, T & T Clark, 2012)
___ 'Reflections on The Word of God in the Life of the Church: A Report of International Conversations Between the Catholic Church and the Baptist World Alliance, 2006-2010', American Baptist Quarterly 31.1 (Spring 2012)
___ 'Evangelicals, Fundamentalism and Theology' in Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the United Kingdom in the Twentieth Century edited by David Bebbington and David Ceri Jones (Oxford, 2013)
___ ' "Living Like Maggots": Is Preaching Still Relevant in the Twenty-First Century?' in Truth That Never Dies: The Dr. George Beasley-Murray Memorial Lectures 2002-2012 edited by Nigel Wright (Pickwick, 2014)
___ 'Should We "Welcome" and "Affirm"? Reflecting on Evangelical Responses to Human Sexuality' in Revisioning, Renewing, Rediscovering the Triune Center: Essays in Honor of Stanley J. Grenz edited by Derek Tidball et al (Cascade, 2014)
___ 'Trinitarian Action and Inseparable Operations: Some Historical and Dogmatic Reflections' in Advancing Trinitarian Theology edited by Oliver Crisp and Fred Sanders (Zondervan, 2014)
___ 'Classical Trinity: Evangelical Perspective' in Jason Sexton (ed.), Two Views on the Doctrine of the Trinity (Zondervan, 2014)
___ 'Beyond a Bath and a Book: Baptist Theological Commitments', Pacific Journal of Baptist Research 9.2 (November 2014)
___ 'Response: In Praise of Being Criticised' in The Holy Trinity Revisited edited by Thomas Noble and Jason Sexton (Paternoster, 2015)
___ 'Who can Count How Many Crosses?: Paul Fiddes on Salvation' in Within the Love of God: Essays on the Doctrine of God in Honour of Paul S. Fiddes edited by Anthony Clarke and Andrew Moore (Oxford, 2015)
___ 'A Note Concerning the Text, Editions, and authorship of the 1660 Standard Confession of the General Baptists', Baptist Quarterly 47.1 (January 2016)
___ 'Scripture in Liturgy and Theology' in Theologians on Scripture edited by Angus Paddison (T & T Clark, 2016)
___ 'Listening to the Past and Reflecting on the Present' in Two Views on Homosexuality edited by Preston Sprinkle (Zondervan, 2016)
___ 'On not handling snakes: Late-modern cultural assumptions about sexuality' in Marriage, Family and Relationships: Biblical, Doctrinal and Contemporary Perspectives edited by Thomas Noble et al (Apollos, 2017)
___ 'Classical trinitarianism and eternal functional subordination: some historical and dogmatic reflections', Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 35.1 (2017)
___ 'Penal Substitution' in T & T Clark Companion to Atonement edited by Adam Johnson (T & T Clark, 2017)
___ 'Soteriology and the Prayers of Passiontide' in Rhythms of Faithfulness: Essays in Honor of John E. Colwell edited by Andy Goodliff and Paul Goodliff (Pickwick, 2018)
___ 'Classical trinitarianism and eternal functional subordination: Some historical and dogmatic reflections' in Trinity Without Hierarchy edited by Michael Bird (Kregel, 2019)
___ 'Asymmetrical Assumption: Why Lutheran Christology does not lead to Kenoticism or Divine Passibility', Scottish Journal of Theology 72.4 (November 2019)
___ 'Towards a Typology of Baptist Theology', Pacific Journal of Theological Research 14.2 (November 2019)
___ 'The Doctrine of the Trinity, then and now: Reflecting dogmatically on the Salters’ Hall debates' in Trinity, Creed and Confusion: The Salters' Hall Debates of 1719 edited by Stephen Copson (Regent's Park College, 2020)
___ 'Light from Baptist Confessions of Faith' in Sources of Light edited by Amy L. Chilton and Steven R. Harmon (Mercer, 2020)
___ 'Gunton and Coleridge' in The T & T Clark Handbook to Colin Gunton edited by Myk Habets et al (T & T Clark, 2021)
___ 'Baptist Identity, Once More', Journal of Baptist Theology in Context 3 (2021)
___ 'General Baptist "Primitivism", the Radical Reformation, and Matthew Caffyn: A Response to Kegan A. Chandler', Journal of European Baptist Studies 21.1 (2021)
___ 'When Did John Smyth Embrace "Arminianism" — And was the First Baptist Congregation "Particular"?, Baptist Quarterly 52.4 (2021)
___ 'A Reformed Account of Eucharist Sacrifice', International Journal of Systematic Theology 24.2 (2022)
___ 'Of subjunctives and apologetics: a response to Judith Wolfe', International Journal of Public Theology (2022)
___ '25 Years On — The Theological Turn at King's College London and the Renewal of Evangelical Baptist Theology', Journal of Baptist Theology in Context 6 (2022)
___ 'The Church of Helwys, Murton, and Lambe: An Argument for Continuity', Baptist Quarterly 54.3 (2023)
___ 'Evaluating a neglected tradition of (Ana)baptist Christology', Scottish Journal of Theology 77.1 (February 2024)
___ 'Who were the Baptists? A review essay', American Baptist Quarterly 40.4 (2021)
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