Curriculum Vitae

Author
Affiliation

Christopher L. Holland

Saint Louis University

Updated

August 15, 2025


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Areas of Specialization

Ethics, Philosophy of Religion

Areas of Competence

Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, Computer Ethics

Education

  • Ph.D. Philosophy, Saint Louis University (in progress)
  • M.A. Theological Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary, 2018
  • M.A. Religion, Hardin-Simmons University (Logsdon School of Theology), 2012
  • B.A. Texas Tech University, Classical Studies and Communication Studies, 2009 (summa cum laude)

Honors and Awards

  • Graduate Assistantship, Saint Louis University, 2019–26
  • Asbury Seminary Theology Award, May 2018
  • Asbury Merit Scholarship, 2014–18
  • Logsdon School of Theology Graduate Student Achievement Award, April 13, 2012
  • Elementary Hebrew Tov Meʾod Award, April 16, 2010
  • Logsdon Graduate Dean’s Scholarship and W. B. Davis Scholarship, 2009–12

Professional Memberships

  • Society of Christian Philosophers
  • American Philosophical Association

Languages

Ancient Greek (reading proficiency with dictionary)

Work in Progress

“The Phenomenological Value Thesis and the Limits of Welfare Eudaimonism”

Presentations and Comments

  • “A Lewisian Approach to Eleonore Stump’s Problem of Mourning”
    Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers Biennial Meeting, April 25–27, 2025

  • Comments: Matthew Cashen’s “Angela the Diplomat” (invited)
    Illinois Philosophical Association Conference, November 4, 2023

  • Comments: Frederick Choo, “Theism is Incompatible with Moral Error Theory”
    Saint Louis University Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, September 9, 2023

  • Comments: Harrison Lee, “Soul-Building Hiddenness: Theodicies and the Principle of Alternate Possibilities”
    Saint Louis University Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, October 1, 2021

  • “Inciting Ethics: Entrapment Rhetoric in Amos’s Oracles Against the Nations”
    Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Abilene, TX, October 1, 2011

Journal and Research Experience

Journal Experience

  • Editorial assistant for Ancient Philosophy Today: DIALOGOI (2024–present)
  • Editorial assistant for Res Philosophica (2021–23)
  • Editorial assistant for Schutzian Research, vol. 13 (2021)
  • Production assistant for Faith and Philosophy (2020–22)

Research Experience

  • RA to Anna Marmodoro for the following publications (2025–present):

    • Parmenidean Essentialism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
    • Matter: A History, Oxford Philosophical Concept Series (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
    • “Failing to Keep Order in One’s Life,” in Oxford Studies in Early Christian Philosophy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
  • RA to Michael Peterson for the following publications (2018–20):

    • Religion and the Biosciences: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
    • C. S. Lewis and the Christian Worldview (Oxford University Press, 2020)
    • Michael Peterson and Raymond VanArragon, eds., Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, Second Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, April 2019)

Teaching Experience

Sole Instructor, Saint Louis University

  • PHIL 1700: Ultimate Questions: The Examined Life (Spring 2025)
  • PHIL 3050x: Computer Ethics (Spring 2024, Fall 2024)
  • PHIL 1700: Ultimate Questions: The Examined Life (Fall 2023)

Sole Instructor, Asbury University

  • PHL 200: Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020)

Teaching Assistant, Saint Louis University

  • PHIL 2050: Ethics (primary Jonathan Jacobs; Spring 2021)
  • PHIL 1050: Introduction to Philosophy (primary Scott Ragland; Fall 2020)

Graduate Assistant, Asbury Theological Seminary

  • PH600: Suffering, Tragedy, and Christian Faith (primary Michael Peterson; Fall 2019)
  • PH615: C. S. Lewis and Christian Faith (primary Michael Peterson; Fall 2019)
  • PH501: Philosophy of the Christian Religion (primary Michael Peterson; Fall 2019)
  • CH501: Church History 1 (primary Meesaeng Choi; Spring 2017–Fall 2018)
  • CH502: Church History 2 (primary Meesaeng Choi; Fall 2016–Fall 2018)

Teaching Assistant, Hardin-Simmons University

  • GREK 2402: Elementary Greek 2 (primary Kenneth Lyle; Spring 2012)
  • GREK 2401: Elementary Greek 1 (primary Kenneth Lyle; Fall 2011)

Instructor Training

  • Certificate in University Teaching Skills Program Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (in progress)

  • Reinert Center Course: Learning Technologies, March 20–31, 2023

  • Reinert Center Seminar: Introduction to Online Teaching, February 14–28, 2023

  • Workshop: Motivating Students, February 8, 2023

  • Workshop: From Coverage to Learning: Re-envisioning Lecture, November 17, 2023

  • Reinert Center Course: Course Design, July 11–22, 2022

  • Workshop: Building Community in Online Classes, April 12, 2022

  • Teaching Students to Think Critically in Assignments, April 8, 2022

  • Reinert Center Course: Teaching Philosophy, September 13–24, 2021

Service

  • Participant, Ultimate Questions Artifact Workshop, Saint Louis University, May 6, 2025

  • Department representative, Undergraduate Core Re-Engagement Workshop, Saint Louis University, April 11, 2025

  • Conference committee, Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference: Philosophies of Time, Motion, and Change, Saint Louis University, October 7–8, 2024

  • Co-organizer, unofficial logic crash course for incoming Saint Louis University graduate students, Summer 2023 Webpage: https://chrislholland.com/SLU_2023_Summer_Logic/Lemmon.html

  • Participant, workshop on undergraduate core Ultimate Questions courses, Saint Louis University, May 9, 2023

  • Conference assistant, “Alienation & the Virtues: Personal, Social, & Spiritual,” Res Philosophica Conference, St. Louis, MO, March 30–31, 2023

  • Participant, workshop on undergraduate core shared learning outcomes rubric, Saint Louis University, March 6, 2023

  • Conference Organizer and Webmaster, Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference: The Problem of Evil, Saint Louis University, October 7–8, 2022
    Site archive: https://sites.google.com/slu.edu/2022-phil-grad-conference/

  • Reviewer, Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference: Virtue and Wisdom, Saint Louis University, October 1–2, 2021