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Bryan Kromholtz, OP

Professor of Theology

Core Doctoral Faculty
At the GTU since
2008
(510) 883-7151

Fr. Bryan L. Kromholtz, O.P., has been at DSPT since 2008, serving on the GTU core doctoral faculty since 2013.

Degrees and Certifications

STD, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2008
MA in Theology, Graduate Theological Union, 2000
MDiv, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, 2000

Curriculum Vitae

Research and Teaching Interests
  • St. Thomas Aquinas

  • Medieval and Contemporary Eschatology

  • Theological Anthropology

  • Sacramental Theology

  • Pastoral Theology

  • Theological Field Education

Selected Publications

“Eschatology in Thomas Aquinas,” in Illuminating Modernity: Thomas Aquinas and Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jacob W. Wood and Michael Altenburger, editors. The Catholic University of America Press [forthcoming]. 

“Reditus: The Eschatology of St. Thomas Aquinas and Eastern Patristic Sources,” in Thomas Aquinas and the Church Fathers, edited by Jörgen Vijgen and Piotr Roszak, 441-457. Brepols, 2021.  

“The Spirit of the Letter: St. Thomas’s Interpretation of Scripture in his Reading of Job’s Eschatology,” in Reading Job with St. Thomas Aquinas, co-edited by Matthew Levering, Piotr Roszak and Jörgen Vijgen, 364-383. The Catholic University of America Press, 2020.  

“Taking Matters Personally: Papers from ‘Person, Soul, and Consciousness,’ the 2017 Dominican Colloquium in Berkeley.” Nova et Vetera, 2019. 

On the Last Day: The Time of the Resurrection of the Dead according to Thomas Aquinas, Academic Press Fribourg, 2010. 

Courses Taught
  • Eschatology
  • Nouvelle Théologie
  • Angels & Demons
  • Theology of Sacraments
  • Aesthetics & Theology
  • Theological Field Education