Nicholas Wolterstorff

The author describes the progress of his grief from the shock of learning of his son's accidental death to his final resignation a year later

Lament for a Son

Terence Cuneo

Essays in Political Philosophy

Understanding Liberal Democracy

Rights and Wrongs

Justice

The first systematic account of Reid's epistemology also relates Reid's philosophy to present-day epistemological discussions.

Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology

Wide-ranging and ambitious, Justice combines moral philosophy and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights and of justice as grounded in rights. Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses what it is to have a right, and he locates rights in the respect due the worth of the rights-holder. After contending that socially-conferred rights require the existence of natural rights, he argues that no secular account of natural human rights is successful; he offers instead a theistic account. Wolterstorff prefaces his systematic account of justice as grounded in rights with an exploration of the common claim that rights-talk is inherently individualistic and possessive. He demonstrates that the idea of natural rights originated neither in the Enlightenment nor in the individualistic philosophy of the late Middle Ages, but was already employed by the canon lawyers of the twelfth century. He traces our intuitions about rights and justice back even further, to Hebrew and Christian scriptures. After extensively discussing justice in the Old Testament and the New, he goes on to show why ancient Greek and Roman philosophy could not serve as a framework for a theory of rights. Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with humankind, Justice not only offers a rich and compelling philosophical account of justice, but also makes an important contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between religious discourse and human rights.

Human beings engage works of the arts in many different ways: they sing songs while working, they kiss icons, they create and dedicate memorials. Yet almost all philosophers of art of the modern period have ignored this variety and focused entirely on just one mode of engagement, namely, disinterested attention. Nicholas Wolterstorff asks why this might be, and proposes that almost all philosophers have accepted the grand narrative concerning art in themodern world. It is generally agreed that in the early modern period, members of the middle class in Western Europe increasingly engaged works of the arts as objects of disinterested attention. The grandnarrative claims that this change represented the arts coming into their own, and that works of art, so engaged, are socially other and transcendent. Wolterstorff rejects this claim, and offers an alternative framework for thinking about the arts. Central to his alternative framework are the idea of the arts as social practices and the idea of works of the arts as having different meaning in different practices.

The Social Practices of Art

Art Rethought

A MAIS AMPLA E DEFINITIVA DISCUSSÃO FILOSÓFICA SOBRE A IDEIA DA FALA DIVINA JÁ REALIZADA. – The Princeton Seminary Bulletin * * * * * "DEUS ME FALOU". COMO ASSIM? DEUS FALOU OU APENAS HOMENS FALARAM SOBRE DEUS? Dentro e fora das igrejas, não é raro ouvir algo do tipo: "E Deus disse" ou "Essa é a palavra do Senhor". Então, o que significa afirmar que Deus fala? Ou como interpretar um texto se quisermos descobrir o que Deus diz nele? "Discurso Divino – Reflexões filosóficas sobre a tese de que Deus fala" apresenta o melhor da filosofia da religião e da teologia filosófica sobre a natureza da comunicação divina. . O conhecido filósofo e um dos principais pensadores cristãos da atualidade Nicholas Wolterstorff aplica teorias da linguagem que explicam o que é a fala entre seres humanos para explicar o que seria a fala para Deus. "Discurso Divino" é notável pela profundidade e originalidade com que aborda os atos de fala de Deus. Para Wolterstorff, podemos, sim, acreditar que Deus fala conosco e que é possível entender o que ele quer dizer quando fala conosco. * * * * * "Discurso Divino" alimenta a antiga convicção judaica de que Deus não nos deixou sozinhos, mas "fala conosco em nosso caminho" e que, portanto, nosso chamado especial é ouvir esse discurso e entender os alertas e promessas, os mandamentos e bênçãos, as exortações e afirmações que Deus dirige aos seres humanos. – First Things "Discurso Divino" mostra a racionalidade da crença cristã nas Escrituras, lançando as bases para uma renovação integral da hermenêutica bíblica e abrindo uma nova janela para a própria leitura devocional da Bíblia – em suma, mostrando que Deus não tem boca, mas fala. Esta obra confirma novamente Nicholas Wolterstorff como um dos maiores filósofos cristãos de nosso tempo. – Guilherme Vilela R. Carvalho

Reflexões filosóficas sobre a tese de que Deus fala

Discurso Divino

Inquiring about God is the first of two volumes of Nicholas Wolterstorff's collected papers. This volume collects Wolterstorff's essays on the philosophy of religion written over the last thirty-five years. The essays, which span a range of topics including Kant's philosophy of religion, the medieval (or classical) conception of God, and the problem of evil, are unified by the conviction that some of the central claims made by the classical theistic tradition, such as the claims that God is timeless, simple, and impassible, should be rejected. Still, Wolterstorff contends, rejecting the classical conception of God does not imply that theists should accept the Kantian view according to which God cannot be known. Of interest to both philosophers and theologians, Inquiring about God should give the reader a lively sense of the creative and powerful work done in contemporary philosophical theology by one of its foremost practitioners.

Inquiring about God: Volume 1, Selected Essays

Alvin Plantinga

A collection of essays by contemporary Calvinist philosophers of religion that examine the epistemology of religious belief between Reformed and Roman Catholic philosophers.

Reason and Belief in God

Faith and Rationality

Analyzes the structure of the modern social order and examines the Christian's proper goals of working for peace and justice.

The Kuyper Lectures for 1981 Delivered at the Free University of Amsterdam

Until Justice and Peace Embrace

Leslie C. Allen

Allen, an experienced scholar and hospital chaplain, is the first to use the Old Testament book of Lamentations to throw light on grief, and to use contemproray examples and discussions of grief to throw lights on Lamentations.

A Pastoral Commentary on Lamentations

A Liturgy of Grief

Prominent in the canonical texts and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is the claim that God speaks. Nicholas Wolterstorff argues that contemporary speech-action theory, when appropriately expanded, offers us a fascinating way of interpreting this claim and showing its intelligibility. He develops an innovative theory of double-hermeneutics - along the way opposing the current near-consensus led by Ricoeur and Derrida that there is something wrong-headed about interpreting a text to find out what its author said. Wolterstorff argues that at least some of us are entitled to believe that God has spoken. Philosophers have never before, in any sustained fashion, reflected on these matters, mainly because they have mistakenly treated speech as revelation.

Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks

Divine Discourse

Clarence Joldersma

Presents a collection of essays on Christian higher education.

Essays on Christian Higher Education

Educating for Shalom

World-renowned Christian philosopher. Beloved professor. Author of the classic Lament for a Son. Nicholas Wolterstorff is all of these and more. His memoir, In This World of Wonders, opens a remarkable new window into the life and thought of this remarkable man. Written not as a complete life story but as a series of vignettes, Wolterstorff’s memoir moves from his humble beginnings in a tiny Minnesota village to his education at Calvin College and Harvard University, to his career of teaching philosophy and writing books, to the experiences that prompted some of his writing—particularly his witnessing South African apartheid and Palestinian oppression firsthand. In This World of Wonders is the story of a thoughtful and grateful Christian whose life has been shaped by many loves—love of philosophy, love of family, love of art and architecture, love of nature and gardening, and more. It’s a lovely, wonderful story.

Memoir of a Life in Learning

In This World of Wonders

Justice in Love

From one of the world’s leading philosophers, this is a powerful defense of religion’s role within the modern university What is religion’s place within the academy today? Are the perspectives of religious believers acceptable in an academic setting? In this lucid and penetrating essay, Nicholas Wolterstorff ranges from Max Weber and John Locke to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charles Taylor to argue that religious orientations and voices do have a home in the modern university, and he offers a sketch of what that home should be like. He documents the remarkable changes have occurred within the academy over the past five decades with regard to how knowledge is understood. During the same period, profound philosophical advancements have also been made in our understanding of religious belief. These shifting ideals, taken together, have created an environment that is more pluralistic than secular. Tapping into larger debates on freedom of expression and intellectual diversity, Wolterstorff believes a scholarly ethic should guard us against becoming, in Weber’s words, “specialists without spirit and sensualists without heart.”

Religion in the University

World-renowned Christian philosopher. Beloved professor. Author of the classic Lament for a Son. Nicholas Wolterstorff is all of these and more. His memoir, In This World of Wonders, opens a remarkable new window into the life and thought of this remarkable man. Written not as a complete life story but as a series of vignettes, Wolterstorff's memoir moves from his humble beginnings in a tiny Minnesota village to his education at Calvin College and Harvard University, to his career of teaching philosophy and writing books, to the experiences that prompted some of his writing--particularly his witnessing South African apartheid and Palestinian oppression firsthand. In This World of Wonders is the story of a thoughtful and grateful Christian whose life has been shaped by many loves--love of philosophy, love of family, love of art and architecture, love of nature and gardening, and more. It's a lovely, wonderful story.

Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology Nicholas Wolterstorff

A new view of Locke's ethics of belief and his contribution to modern philosophy.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

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