Nicholas Wolterstorff - Wikipedia Nicholas Wolterstorff From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search American philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff Born Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff (1932-01-21) January 21, 1932 (age 88) Bigelow, Minnesota, US Spouse(s) Claire Wolterstorff ​ (m. 1955)​ Academic background Alma mater Calvin College Harvard University Thesis Whitehead's Theory of Individuals (1956) Academic advisors Donald Cary Williams[1] Influences Augustine of Hippo John Calvin William Harry Jellema Abraham Kuyper Alvin Plantinga Thomas Reid Academic work Discipline Philosophy theology Sub-discipline Aesthetics epistemology liturgics metaphysics philosophical theology philosophy of education philosophy of religion political philosophy School or tradition Analytic philosophy analytic theology Calvinism Institutions Calvin College Yale University Doctoral students Phillip Cary Notable ideas Reformed epistemology Influenced Gary Chartier David Claerbaut Kendall Walton Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff (born 1932) is an American philosopher and theologian. He is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus Philosophical Theology at Yale University.[2] A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theological interests, he has written books on aesthetics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and philosophy of education. In Faith and Rationality, Wolterstorff, Alvin Plantinga, and William Alston developed and expanded upon a view of religious epistemology that has come to be known as Reformed epistemology.[3] He also helped to establish the journal Faith and Philosophy and the Society of Christian Philosophers. Contents 1 Biography 2 Professional distinctions 3 Endowed lectureships 4 Personal life 5 Thought 6 Bibliography 6.1 Selected writings 6.2 Secondary 7 See also 8 References 9 External links Biography[edit] Wolterstorff was born on January 21, 1932,[4] to Dutch emigrants in a small farming community in southwest Minnesota.[5][6] After earning his BA in philosophy at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1953, he entered Harvard University, where he earned his MA and PhD in philosophy, completing his studies in 1956. He then spent a year at the University of Cambridge, where he met C. D. Broad. From 1957 to 1959, he was an instructor in philosophy at Yale University. Then he took the post of Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College and taught for 30 years.[5] He is now teaching at Yale as Noah Porter Professor Emeritus Philosophical Theology. In 1987 Wolterstorff published Lament for a Son after the untimely death of his 25-year-old son Eric in a mountain climbing accident. In a series of short essays, Wolterstorff recounts how he drew on his Christian faith to cope with his grief. Wolterstorff explained that he published the book "in the hope that it will be of help to some of those who find themselves with us in the company of mourners."[7] He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, the University of Oxford, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, Temple University, the Free University of Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit), and the University of Virginia. In 2007, he received an honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.[8] He has been retired since June 2002. Wolterstorff published his memoir with William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. in 2019, illustrating the close relationship between his personal life and his distinguished academic career.[9] Professional distinctions[edit] Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1953 Harvard Foundation Fellowship, 1954 Josiah Royce Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University, 1954 Fulbright Scholarship, 1957 President of the American Philosophical Association (Central Division) President of the Society of Christian Philosophers[2] Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Culture, University of Virginia, 2005 Endowed lectureships[edit] Wolterstorff speaking at a conference in South Korea in 2014 Kuyper Lectures, Free University of Amsterdam, 1981 Wilde Lectures, University of Oxford, 1993 Gifford Lectures: "Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology", St Andrews University, 1995 Tate-Willson Lectures, Southern Methodist University, 1991 Stone Lectures, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1998 Lectures at Southern Seminary, Lecture #2, Lecture #3, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2000 Taylor Lectures, Yale University, 2001 Laing Lectures, Regent College, 2007 Personal life[edit] Nicholas Wolterstorff lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with his wife Claire. He has four grown children. His oldest son died in a mountain climbing accident at age 25. He has seven grandchildren. Thought[edit] While an undergraduate at Calvin College, Wolterstorff was greatly influenced by professors William Harry Jellema, Henry Stob, and Henry Zylstra, who introduced him to schools of thought that have dominated his mature thinking: Reformed theology and common sense philosophy. (These have also influenced the thinking of his friend and colleague Alvin Plantinga, another alumnus of Calvin College). Wolterstorff builds upon the ideas of the Scottish common-sense philosopher Thomas Reid, who approached knowledge "from the bottom-up". Instead of reasoning about transcendental conditions of knowledge, Wolterstorff suggests that knowledge and our knowing faculties are not the subject of our research but have to be seen as its starting point. He rejects classical foundationalism and instead sees knowledge as based upon insights in reality which are direct and indubitable.[5] Bibliography[edit] Selected writings[edit] On Universals: An Essay in Ontology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1970. Reason within the Bounds of Religion. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1976. 2nd ed. 1984 Works and Worlds of Art. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1980. Art in Action: Toward a Christian Aesthetic. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1980. 2nd ed. 1995 Educating for Responsible Action. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1980. Until Justice and Peace Embrace. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 1983. 2nd ed. 1994. Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God (ed. with Alvin Plantinga). Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 1984. Lament for a Son. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1987. "Suffering Love" in Philosophy and the Christian Faith (ed.Thomas V. Morris). Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 1988. Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim That God Speaks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995. John Locke and the Ethics of Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. Religion in the Public Square (with Robert Audi). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 1997. Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Educating for Life: Reflections on Christian Teaching and Learning. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic. 2002. "An Engagement with Rorty" in The Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring, 2003), pp. 129–139. Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Education. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2004. Justice: Rights and Wrongs. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2008. Inquiring about God: Selected Essays, Volume I (ed. Terence Cuneo). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Practices of Belief: Selected Essays, Volume II (ed. Terence Cuneo). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Hearing the Call: Liturgy, Justice, Church, and World . William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2011. The Mighty and the Almighty: An Essay in Political Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Journey toward Justice: Personal Encounters in the Global South. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic. 2013. Understanding Liberal Democracy: Essays in Political Philosophy (ed. Terence Cuneo). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012. Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015. Justice in Love. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2015. The God We Worship: An Exploration of Liturgical Theology. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2015. Acting Liturgically: Philosophical Reflections on Religious Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. ISBN 9780198805380 In This World of Wonders: Memoir of a Life in Learning. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2019. Secondary[edit] Sloane, Andrew, On Being A Christian in the Academy: Nicholas Wolterstorff and the Practice of Christian Scholarship, Paternoster, Carlisle UK, 2003. See also[edit] Biography portal Christianity portal Philosophy portal American philosophy Christian philosophy Christian Reformed Church in North America References[edit] ^ Wolterstorff, Nicholas (November 2007). "A Life in Philosophy". Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. 81 (2): 93–106. JSTOR 27653995. ^ a b "Nicholas Wolterstorff". religiousstudies.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-03. ^ Forrest, Peter (2017). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2017 ed.). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. ^ https://s3.amazonaws.com/iasc-prod/uploads/pdf/3e078b1b0ccea214aa60.pdf ^ a b c "Nicholas Wolterstorff". The Gifford Lectures. Retrieved 2018-12-03. ^ "6 Questions with Nicholas Wolterstorff". EerdWord (publisher blog). Retrieved 2019-05-09. ^ "Lament for a Son". Eerdmans. Retrieved 2019-05-15. ^ "Honorary doctorates", Top researchers, NL: VU. ^ "In This World of Wonders". Eerdmans. Retrieved 2019-05-15. External links[edit] Faculty page at Yale Interview from The Christian Century. "The Irony of It All"[permanent dead link] in The Hedgehog Review vol. 9, no. 3 (Fall 2007). Article discussing human dignity and justice. Lecture at Calvin College on "How Calvin Fathered a Renaissance in Christian Philosophy". Wolterstorff's Spiritual Autobiography from Clark, Kelly James, Philosophers Who Believe (Intervarsity Press, 1993). Theology and Ethics Contains many PDF files of Wolterstorff's work not available elsewhere. Art in Action: New Thoughts Lecture at the 2009 International Arts Movement. Lectures by Wolterstorff from the C.S. Lewis Institute. 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