Nicholas Wolterstorff

Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School

Nicholas Wolterstorff received his BA from Calvin College in 1953 and his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1956. Before taking up his current position as Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, he taught for two years at Yale, and then for thirty years at his alma mater, Calvin College.

After concentrating on metaphysics at the beginning of his career, he spent a good many years working primarily on aesthetics and philosophy of art. In more recent years, he has been concentrating on epistemology, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy.

In the fall of 1993 he gave the Wilde Lectures at Oxford University (published as Divine Discourse), and in the spring of 1995 he gave the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews University (part of which is now published as Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology). He has been president of the American Philosophical Association (Central Division), and of the Society of Christian Philosophers.

He regularly teaches lecture courses in philosophy of religion and aesthetics, and seminars in epistemology, hermeneutics, and philosophy of religion.

He is the author of Reason Within the Bounds of Religion, Until Justice and Peace Embrace, John Locke and Ethics of Belief, Justice: Rights and Wrongs and several other books and articles on philosophy, aesthetics, religion and government.