Nicholas Wolterstorff

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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff is an American philosopher and theologian. He is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. 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. He also helped to establish the journal Faith and Philosophy and the Society of Christian Philosophers.

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Justice: Rights and Wrongs (2007) (159)
The Miracle of Theism (1982) (156)
Works and Worlds of Art. (1982) (119)
A History of Six Ideas: An Essay in Aesthetics. (1980) (95)
Religion in the Public Square: The Place of Religious Convictions in Political Debate (1999) (82)
Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks (1998) (81)
John Locke and the Ethics of Belief: Frontmatter (1996) (69)
Reason Within the Bounds of Religion (1976) (60)
Art in action : toward a Christian aesthetic (1980) (59)
Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Education (2004) (58)
Faith and Rationality (1986) (58)
Religion in the Public Square (1996) (57)
Substance and Attribute. (1984) (54)
Educating for life : reflections on Christian teaching and learning (2002) (49)
Lament For A Son (1987) (49)
John Locke and the ethics of belief (1999) (47)
An Engagement with Rorty (2003) (46)
Is it Possible and Desirable for Theologians to Recover from Kant (1998) (45)
Faith and rationality: reason and belief in God (1983) (37)
Toward an Ontology of Art Works (1975) (36)
Until Justice and Peace Embrace: The Kuyper Lectures for 1981 Delivered at the Free University of Amsterdam (1983) (35)
Understanding Liberal Democracy: Essays in Political Philosophy (2012) (35)
Thomas Reid and the story of epistemology (2000) (33)
Bergmann''s Constituent Ontology (1970) (31)
Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art (2015) (29)
Stained Glass: Worldviews and Social Science (1989) (27)
Educating for Responsible Action (1980) (26)
Locke's philosophy of religion (1994) (24)
Justice in Love (2011) (24)
On Universals: An Essay in Ontology (1972) (23)
How Philosophical Theology Became Possible within the Analytic Tradition of Philosophy (2009) (22)
Religion and public education (1967) (21)
Do Christians Have Good Reason for Supporting Liberal Democracy (2001) (19)
The Mighty and the Almighty: An Essay in Political Theology (2012) (17)
Worlds of Works of Art (1976) (16)
Reid on Common Sense (2004) (16)
The Paradoxical Role of Coercion in the Theory of Political Liberalism (2012) (14)
Philosophy of Art After Analysis and Romanticism (1987) (13)
Are Concept-Users World-Makers? (1987) (13)
Rationality in the Calvinian Tradition (2011) (12)
Liberal Democracy as Equal Political Voice (2012) (12)
Teaching Justly for Justice (2006) (11)
Accounting for the Political Authority of the State (2012) (11)
A Religious Argument for the Civil Right to Freedom of Religious Exercise, Drawn from American History (2012) (11)
The Assurance of Faith (1990) (11)
Why Philosophy of Art Cannot Handle Kissing, Touching, and Crying (2003) (11)
Referring and Existing (1961) (10)
All Justice is Social but it’s not all Social Justice (2013) (10)
Art in action (1980) (10)
Habermas on Religion and Postmetaphysical Philosophy in Political Discourse (2012) (10)
Inquiring about God: Conundrums in Kant's rational religion (2010) (10)
Ivory Tower or Holy Mountain? Faith and Academic Freedom. (2001) (9)
Knowing God Liturgically (2016) (9)
Journey toward Justice: Personal Encounters in the Global South (2013) (9)
The God We Worship: An Exploration of Liturgical Theology (2015) (8)
Hume and Reid (1987) (8)
Reid on common sense, with Wittgenstein's assistance (2000) (8)
Characters and their names (1979) (8)
JEFFREY STOUT ON DEMOCRACY AND ITS CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN CRITICS (2005) (7)
Religion in the University (2019) (7)
A passion for God's reign : theology, Christian learning and the Christian self (1998) (7)
How Social Justice Got to Me and Why It Never Left (2008) (7)
Justice as a Condition of Authentic Liturgy (1991) (7)
Barth on Evil (1996) (7)
The Mission of the Christian College at the End of the 20th Century. (1984) (7)
Art and the Aesthetic: The Religious Dimension (2008) (6)
The Reformed Tradition (2010) (6)
Hearing the Call: Liturgy, Justice, Church, and World (2011) (6)
Can Human Rights Survive Secularization (2009) (6)
Divine Discourse: Index (1995) (5)
Epistemology of Religion (2017) (5)
Inquiring about God: In defense of Gaunilo's defense of the fool (2010) (5)
Can Ontology Do Without Events (1979) (5)
Toleration, justice, and dignity. Lecture on the occasionof the inauguration as professor of Dirk-Martin Grube, Free University of Amsterdam, September 24, 2015 (2015) (5)
Scholarship Grounded in Religion (2002) (5)
Inquiring about God: Alston on Aquinas on theological predication (2010) (5)
Would You Stomp On a Picture of Your Mother? Would You Kiss an Icon? (2015) (5)
Christianity and Human Rights (2011) (5)
Why the Revolution (2015) (4)
JUSTICE AS INHERENT RIGHTS: A RESPONSE TO MY COMMENTATORS (2009) (4)
What Sort of Epistemological Realist was Thomas Reid (2006) (4)
Then, Now, and Al (2011) (4)
3. Once More: Evidentialism-This Time, Soeial (1988) (4)
The silence of the God who speaks (2003) (4)
Inquiring about God: Unqualified divine temporality (2010) (4)
Inquiring about God (2014) (4)
Augustine's Confessions (2006) (4)
On ‘there is’ (1960) (4)
Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation (2011) (4)
Inquiring about God: Analytic philosophy of religion: retrospect and prospect (2010) (3)
Practices of Belief (2010) (3)
God and Time (2000) (3)
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along With Each Other? (2009) (3)
Is It Possible and Sometimes Desirable for States to Forgive (2013) (3)
Inquiring about God: God everlasting (2010) (3)
Jesus and Forgiveness (2008) (3)
Artists in the Shadows: Review of Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe@@@Memesis As Make-Believe. (1991) (3)
Why Animals Don’t Speak (1987) (3)
Dutch Neo-Calvinism : Worldview , Philosophy and Rationality (2009) (3)
The Significance of Inexplicable Disagreement (2014) (3)
Augustine's City of God : Augustine’s rejection of eudaimonism (2012) (2)
Evidence, Entitled Belief, and the Gospels (1989) (2)
Can Scholarship and Christian Conviction Mix? A New Look at the Integration of Knowledge (1999) (2)
John Locke's Epistemological Piety: Reason is the Candle of the Lord (1994) (2)
The promise of speech-act theory for biblical interpretation (2017) (2)
Beardsley's Approach (2005) (2)
What is Cartesian doubt (1993) (2)
Theology and Public Philosophy: Four Conversations (2012) (2)
A Discussion of Oliver O'Donovan's The Desire of the Nations (2001) (2)
Resurrecting the Author (2003) (2)
Reid on Justice (2010) (1)
Response to Beardsley on ‘fiction as representation’ (1981) (1)
The liturgical present tense (2018) (1)
Two Approaches to Representation–and Then a Third (1991) (1)
Does God know what we say to God (2018) (1)
Art In Realist Perspective (1985) (1)
The Bible and Economics (1987) (1)
Realism vs Anti-Realism: How to Feel at Home in the World (1985) (1)
Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston (2005) (1)
Reply to Kevin Carnahan and Erik A. Anderson (2013) (1)
Liturgical Love (2017) (1)
Response to My Commentators (2010) (1)
Toleration, justice, and dignity. Lecture on the occasion of the inauguration as professor of Dirk-Martin Grube, Free University of Amsterdam, September 24, 2015 (2018) (1)
Will Narrativity Work as Linchpin? Reflections on the Hermeneutic of Hans Frei (1995) (1)
Book Reviews (2003) (1)
Historicizing the Belief-Forming Self (2006) (1)
Work Songs Social Practice and Meaning (2015) (1)
Miroslav Volf on Living One’s Faith (2013) (1)
Stern on Interpreting (1980) (1)
Love, Justice, and Law (2017) (1)
C. S. Lewis on the Problem of Suffering (2013) (1)
Chapter Four. On De-justicizing the New Testament (2008) (1)
Portraits of American philosophy (2013) (1)
Speaking Faith to Policy (1998) (1)
John Locke and the Ethics of Belief: CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN RELIGION AND CRITICAL THOUGHT (1996) (1)
Kateb, George.Human Dignity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. 238+xiii. $22.95 (cloth). (2012) (1)
Are Properties Meanings (1960) (1)
Nicholas Wolterstorff, REASON WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF RELIGION, 2nd edition (2020) (1)
Happiness in Augustine’s Confessions1 (2014) (1)
Does Forgiveness Violate Justice (2011) (1)
Sacred and Inviolable (2000) (1)
Why Naturalism Cannot Account for Natural Human Rights (2016) (1)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. A Theistic Grounding of Human Rights (2008) (1)
Inquiring about God: Tertullian's enduring question (2010) (1)
Grounding the Rights We Have as Human Persons (2012) (1)
God and the Ethics of Belief: Does Forgiveness Undermine Justice? (2005) (1)
Les origines de la philosophie analytique de la religion (2012) (1)
The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination, by Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans (2013) (1)
The Christian Humanism of John Calvin (2016) (1)
Book Review: Religious Belief And The Will (1991) (0)
ADAM SMITH ON JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE (2016) (0)
Meaning of Works of the Arts and of Artworks (2015) (0)
Lamentations through the Centuries, by Paul M. Joyce and Diana Lipton (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), xiii + 217 pp. (2014) (0)
Religion in Public Life: Must Faith Be Privatized? (2010) (0)
Inquiring about God: The silence of the God who speaks (2010) (0)
The illocutionary stance of biblical narrative (1995) (0)
What is liturgy (2018) (0)
Modern Protestant developments in human rights (2010) (0)
Response to Dennis Casper (1976) (0)
Exercising One's Political Voice as a Moral Engagement (2012) (0)
The Place of Pain in the Space of Good and Evil (2008) (0)
On bended knee (2018) (0)
Inquiring about God: Divine simplicity (2010) (0)
Art-Reflexive Meaning in the Work of Sherrie Levine (2015) (0)
The Social Practices of Social Protest Art (2015) (0)
Divine Discourse: Locating our topic (1995) (0)
Believers, Theologians and Philosophers: Faith’s Role in Philosophy (2000) (0)
Inquiring about God: Bibliography (2010) (0)
The “two cities” objection to our framing of the issues (2012) (0)
With one accord (2018) (0)
Could God have and acquire the rights and duties of a speaker (1995) (0)
Languages of Art. The Monist (1976) (0)
On following a liturgical script (2018) (0)
Beauty, Love, Justice, and Worship (2008) (0)
Believers, Theologians and Philosophers: Philosophy's Role in Theology (2000) (0)
Response to Jean Porter’s Ministers of the Law (2011) (0)
Divine Discourse: Speaking is not revealing (1995) (0)
Chapter One. Two Conceptions of Justice (2008) (0)
The Pursuit of Justice and the Social Practices of Art (2015) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Reid's Analysis of Perception: The Standard Schema (2000) (0)
EPILOGUE. Concluding Reflections (2008) (0)
John Locke, Vindications of the Reasonableness of Christianity , edited with an introduction and notes by Victor Nuevo (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. cxi+400. £65.00/ $125.00. (2015) (0)
Peace Workers (Part 2 of 2) (1978) (0)
Divine Discourse: The many modes of discourse (1995) (0)
Liberalism and religion (2015) (0)
Undertaking commitment without claiming entitlement_5 (2012) (0)
Inquiring about God: Acknowledgments (2010) (0)
Review: Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self (2002) (0)
Jeremy. Waldron, God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke’s Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii+263 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). (2004) (0)
John Locke and the Ethics of Belief: Locke and the making of modern philosophy (1996) (0)
A Christian Engagement with Liberal Democracy (2004) (0)
Book Reviews : The Royal Priesthood: essays ecclesiological and ecumenical, by John Howard Yoder, edited by Michael G. Cartwright. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994. 388 pp. pb. U.S. $22.99 (1997) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. Why Eudaimonism Cannot Serve as Framework for a Theory of Rights (2008) (0)
Can Scholarship and Christian Conviction Mix? A New Look at the Integration of Knowledge (1999) (0)
Chapter Two. A Contest of Narratives (2008) (0)
The Social Practices of Art for Veneration (2015) (0)
Why the Grand Narrative Never Was Tenable (2015) (0)
Thomas Reid and The Story of Epistemology: Reid's Questions (2000) (0)
Wherein Lies the Worth of Disinterested Attention (2015) (0)
Index of Scriptural References (2008) (0)
Tradition, Insight and Constraint (1992) (0)
De Gustibus: Arguing about Taste and Why We Do It By Peter Kivy Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp.xii+173, £27.50 ISBN: 9780198746782 (2017) (0)
The Mighty and the Almighty: Framing the issues: understanding Polycarp (2012) (0)
Freedom for Religion (2012) (0)
CHAPTER EIGHT. Augustine’s Break with Eudaimonism (2008) (0)
Authority to govern (2012) (0)
John Locke and the Ethics of Belief: Rationality in everyday life (1996) (0)
Divine Discourse: Interpreting the mediating human discourse: the first hermeneutic (1995) (0)
Taliaferro & Evans, THE IMAGE IN MIND: THEISM, NATURALISM, AND THE IMAGINATION (2020) (0)
Looking for Good Work: Western Christian High Commencement, May 19, 2015 (2015) (0)
Divine Discourse: In defense of authorial-discourse interpretation: contra Derrida (1995) (0)
Inquiring about God: Is God disturbed by what transpires in human affairs? (2010) (0)
The Social Practices of Memorial Art (2015) (0)
CHAPTER TWELVE. Rights Not Grounded in Duties (2008) (0)
All Justice is Social but it’s not all Social Justice (2013) (0)
Reviews (2010) (0)
11. ADAM SMITH ON JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE (2016) (0)
God’s liturgical activity (2018) (0)
The Mighty and the Almighty: God's governance of humankind (2012) (0)
Chapter Three. Justice in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible (2008) (0)
The Attack Continues: There's Not the Resemblance (2000) (0)
Divine Hiddenness: The Silence of the God Who Speaks (2001) (0)
Divine Discourse: Preface (1995) (0)
Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley, eds., Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, xiii + 313pp. £68.00 / $125.00 (2015) (0)
Religious Belief and the Will (1991) (0)
Liturgical repetition and reenactment (2018) (0)
God's Agents (Part 1 of 2) (1978) (0)
Philosophy and Literature (1988) (0)
Reply to Antony (2010) (0)
The Memorial Meaning of the Mural Art of Belfast (2015) (0)
Discarding the “two rules” doctrine (2012) (0)
Foreword (2020) (0)
What did Paul actually say (2012) (0)
Pluralism and World Mission in the CRC1 (2015) (0)
Fifty Years Later (2005) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. Locating That to Which We Have Rights (2008) (0)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Rights Grounded in Respect for Worth (2008) (0)
Review: Religious BuildingsRELIGIOUS BUILDINGS. By the editors of Architectural Record. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1979, Pp. xii + 177. $24.95. (1981) (0)
Justice and injustice in Christian liturgies (2018) (0)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Nature and Grounding of Natural Human Rights (2008) (0)
Calvin on God, governmental authority, and obedience (2012) (0)
Divine Discourse: Divine discourse in the hands of theologians (1995) (0)
Reason and trust in Reid (2011) (0)
Reid's Way with the Skeptic (2000) (0)
Response to Helm, Quinn, and Westphal (2001) (0)
John Locke and the Ethics of Belief: Hume's attack: why implementing Locke's practice is not always doing one's best (1996) (0)
Reply to Kevin Carnahan and Erik A. Anderson (2013) (0)
The Social Protest Meaning of the Graphic Art of Käthe Kollwitz (2015) (0)
A Commentary on the Mission Statement of Dallas Baptist University by Dr (2003) (0)
Divine Discourse: What it is to speak (1995) (0)
REFORMED THEOLOGY AND CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY (2014) (0)
Love and Justice (2018) (0)
Beauty: What's Justice Got to Do with It (2008) (0)
Inquiring about God: Suffering love (2010) (0)
Reply to Levine (1998) (0)
Divine Discourse: Notes (1995) (0)
Divine Discourse: Has Scripture become a wax nose? (1995) (0)
Reid's Opening Attack: Nothing Is Explained (2000) (0)
In Conclusion: Living Wisely in the Darkness (2000) (0)
Yoder's objection to our framing of the issues (2012) (0)
CHAPTER TEN. Characterizing Life- and History-Goods (2008) (0)
What Are the Prospects for Public Reason Liberalism (2012) (0)
Thomas Reid and The Story of Epistemology: The Epistemology of Testimony (2000) (0)
Hendrik Hart, Johan Van Der Hoeven, and Nicholas Wolterstorff, eds., RATIONALITY IN THE CALVINIAN TRADITION (2020) (0)
Civil Disagreement: Personal Integrity in a Pluralistic Society, by Edward Langerak (2015) (0)
Nicholas Wolterstorff (2022) (0)
The Social Practices of Art-Reflexive Art (2015) (0)
Locke's originality (1996) (0)
Thomas Reid and The Story of Epistemology: An Exception (or Two) to Reid's Standard Schema (2000) (0)
God and the State: Response to My Critics (2016) (0)
John Locke and the Ethics of Belief: Preface (1996) (0)
The Arts as Social Practices (2015) (0)
Nicholas Wolterstorff, DIVINE DISCOURSE (2020) (0)
William J. Abraham, CROSSING THE THRESHOLD OF DIVINE REVELATION (2020) (0)
The Early Modern Revolution in the Arts (2015) (0)
Art, Religion, and the Grand Narrative (2015) (0)
Faith and Reason From Plato to Plantinga: An Introduction to Reformed Epistemology by Dewey J. Hoitenga, Jr. (review) (2017) (0)
Divine Discourse: Can God cause the events generative of discourse? (1995) (0)
On Secular and Theistic Groundings of Human Rights (2012) (0)
Political Theology for a Plural Age, ed. by Michael Jon Kessler . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 269 + x pages. $29.95 paper (2014) (0)
Why There Is a Natural Right to Religious Freedom (2018) (0)
Divine Discourse: Historical and theological afterword (1995) (0)
Inquiring about God: Introduction (2010) (0)
Beauty and Justice (2009) (0)
Chapter Five. Justice in the New Testament Gospels (2008) (0)
Interpreting for the mediated divine discourse: the second hermeneutic (1995) (0)
On the liturgical reading and singing of Scripture (2018) (0)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Is a Secular Grounding of Human Rights Possible (2008) (0)
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Accounting for Rights (2008) (0)
The rights-limited state (2012) (0)
The Justificatory Liberalism of Gerald Gaus (2012) (0)
What are those without faith doing in liturgical enactments (2018) (0)
CHAPTER NINE. The Incursion of the Moral Vision of Scripture into Late Antiquity (2008) (0)
What Happened to Beauty (2015) (0)
Divine Discourse: Performance interpretation (1995) (0)
10. Robert S. Taylor, Reconstructing Rawls: The Kantian Foundations of Justice as Fairness Robert S. Taylor, Reconstructing Rawls: The Kantian Foundations of Justice as Fairness (pp. 632-637) (2012) (0)
Institutional rights as limits on the authority of the state (2012) (0)
Liturgy and Justice (2017) (0)
The Way of Ideas: Structure and Motivation (2000) (0)
Wrap-up: Polycarp re-visited (2012) (0)
Believers, Theologians and Philosophers: Why Faith has No Need for Philosophy's Grounding (2000) (0)
The Social Protest Meaning of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (2015) (0)
Dwelling with Music (1997) (0)
What Does Faith Have to Do with Learning? (Original Title Unavailable) (1973) (0)
Discussion of Lubomír Doležel’s paper “Possible Worlds and Literary Fictions” (1988) (0)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Applications and Implications (2008) (0)
The Inapplicability of the Grand Narrative to Recent Art (2015) (0)
The political implications of the nature and existence of the church (2012) (0)
In defense of authorial-discourse interpretation: contra Derrida (1995) (0)
Divine Discourse: Are we entitled? (1995) (0)
The Grand Narrative and the Grand Narrative Theses (2015) (0)
The Right of the People to a Democratic State: Reflections on a Passage in Althusius (2012) (0)

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