R. Ward Holder - Curriculum Vitae

		Curriculum Vitae – Selected Items
		Professional Appointments \| Education \| Post-Doctoral Awards \| Professional Experience \| Professional Memberships
		Professional Appointments Saint Anselm College (2001-Present): Associate Professor (2006), Assistant Professor (2001-2006, tenure 2005). Department of Theology Stonehill College: Assistant Professor (1999-2001). Department of Religious Studies Andover Newton Theological School: Adjunct Professor (2000-2002). Department of Church History Boston College: Adjunct Instructor (1998-1999). Department of Theology
		Education Ph.D. 1998 Boston College & Andover Newton Theological School Joint Doctoral Program Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Specialty: Medieval & Reformation History and Theology M. Div. 1988 Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey Concentration in Church History A.B. 1985 Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa Major in Music Back to top
		Post-Doctoral Awards National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend – 2009 New Hampshire Institute of Politics Faculty Research Grant – 2008 Summer Research Grant – 2006 – Granted by Saint Anselm College Abbot Gerald McCarthy Award – 2004-2005 Abbot Gerald McCarthy Award – 2003-2004 – voted by student body of Saint Anselm College for “faculty member who has shown the most dedication to the students throughout the academic year” Summer Research Grant - 2002 – Granted by Saint Anselm College (Prize funded manuscript preparation – published in 2006) Summer Research Grant - 2000 – Granted by Stonehill College (Prize funded manuscript preparation – published in 2006) Post-Doctoral Fellowship - 1998 – Granted by Boston College (Award provided year-long teaching position)
		Professional Experience Professional Service: Church History and Religious Culture, Brill Academic Publishers – Member of International Advisory Board – 2007 – 2008 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference – Program Chair for Theology– 2006-2008 Calvin Studies Society – Member, Board of Directors – 2007-2009 Religious Studies Review – Book Review Editor for Reformation – 2008 Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte – Review Editor – 2003 – 2008 Church History and Religious Culture – Editorial Reviewer – 2007 – 2008 Sixteenth Century Journal – Editorial Reviewer – 2003 – 2008 Baker Academic Press – Peer Reviewer – 2008 American Academy of Religion – Reformed Theology and History Group, Steering Committee Member – 2000-2006 Cambridge University Press – Peer Reviewer – 2005 Back to top Publications:
		Books: John Calvin and the Grounding of Interpretation: Calvin’s First Commentaries, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions vol. 127, Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. Reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly, Sixteenth Century Journal, Church History, and Theology Today. Reformation Readings of Romans, co-editor with Kathy Ehrensperger, Romans Through History and Cultures Series, T. & T. Clark, 2008. Crisis and Renewal:The Era of the Reformations, Westminster John Knox Press, 2009. A Companion to Paul in the Reformation, editor, Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, Brill Academic Publishers, 2009
		Articles and Chapters: “Calvin’s Theology: Tradition and Renewal,” in Calvin Handbuch, edited by Herman Selderhuis, Mohr Siebeck. Forthcoming. “Calvin as Commentator on the Pauline Letters,” Chapter 9 in Calvin and the Bible, edited by Donald McKim. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 224-256. “Paul as Calvin’s (Ambivalent) Pastoral Model.” In Dutch Review of Church History, Leiden: Brill, 2004, 284-298. “Calvin’s Exegetical Pastor.” In Calvin and the Company of Pastors: Calvin Studies Society Papers, 2003. Edited by David Foxgrover. Grand Rapids: CRC Publications, 2004, 179-209. “Calvin’s Heritage,” Chapter 14 in The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin, edited by Donald McKim. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 245-273. “The Reformed Understanding of Vocation in History,” Chapter 4 of Called to Teach: The Vocation of the Presbyterian Educator, co-authored with John Kuykendal, edited by Duncan Ferguson and William Weston. Louisville: Geneva Press, 2003, 43-58. “Ecclesia, Legenda atque Intelligenda Scriptura: The Church as Discerning Community in Calvin’s Hermeneutic.” Calvin Theological Journal 36, no. 2 (2001): 270-289. Review Essay. Craig S. Farmer, The Gospel of John in the Sixteenth Century: The Johannine Exegesis of Wolfgang Musculus. In Erasmus of Rotterdam. Society Yearbook 19 (1999): 104-110. Invited Addresses: “Reformation Theology” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, 28 June 2006, at H. Henry Meeter Center, Calvin College “Young John Calvin” Andover Newton Theological School – 15 March 2006 “Calvin’s Hermeneutic and Tradition: An Augustinian Reception of Romans 7,” 21 November 2005, Society for Biblical Literature “Calvin’s Exegetical Understanding of the Office of Pastor,” 23 May 2003, at the Calvin Studies Society Colloquium, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana “Religion and Violence.” Radio address for The Exchange, New Hampshire Public Radio, 13 December 2001, Concord, New Hampshire “The Church as Intersection of Theology and Scripture in Calvin’s Thought” 14 February 2000, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan Papers Delivered: “Reassessing Calvin’s Augustinianism: Transformative Reception and Normative Influence, ” 25 May 2009, Calvin and His Influence, sponsored by the Institute for the History of the Reformation, University of Geneva “Teaching Calvin to Hostile and/or Ignorant Audiences,” member of roundtable discussion, 24 October 2008, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference “Calvin or Paul? Calvin’s Commentary as Hermeneutic in the Pauline Epistles,” 18 November 2007, Society for Biblical Literature “The Sixteenth Century as a Pauline Age,” 22 March 2007, Renaissance Society of America “Romans, Predestination, and a Horrible Decree: The Perichoretic Nature of Calvin’s Doctrinal Development,” 22 October 2005, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference “Not Really Sola Scriptura – Church and Tradition in Calvin’s Interpretation of Scripture,” 20 November 2004, American Academy of Religion “The Uneasy Alliance – History and Theology in the Creation of Church History;” 8 January 2004, American Society of Church History “Paul as Calvin's Pastoral Model;” 30 October 2003, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference “Calvin’s Hermeneutical Principles,” 25 October 2002, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference Dominus Iesus – Roman Catholic and Reformed Responses – Organizing Chair of Panel at American Academy of Religion, Reformed Theology and History Group, 17 November 2001 Reviews appearing in: *Sixteenth Century Journal; Renaissance Quarterly;* H-France; Anglican Theological Review; *Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis;* *Theological Studies; Reviews in Religion and Theology; Religious Studies Review;The Bulletin of the Institute for Reformed Theology*.
		Professional Memberships American Academy of Religion American Society of Church History Renaissance Society of America Society of Biblical Literature Sixteenth Century Studies Conference Society for Reformation Research Calvin Studies Society
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Curriculum Vitae – Selected Items