Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University, and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia.
He received his BA from Calvin College in 1953 and his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1956. After teaching philosophy for two years at Yale, and then for thirty years at his alma mater, Calvin College, he returned to Yale in 1989 as the Noah Porter Professor in Philosophical Theology.
After concentrating on metaphysics at the beginning of his career (On Universals), he spent a good many years working primarily on aesthetics and philosophy of art (Works and Worlds of Art, and Art in Action). In more recent years, he concentrated on epistemology (John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology), on philosophy of religion (Divine Discourse, and, with Alvin Plantinga, Faith and Rationality), and political philosophy (Until Justice and Peace Embrace, and, with Robert Audi, Religion in the Public Square). He has recently published Justice in Love, Understanding Liberal Democracy, The Mighty and the Almighty, and Justice: Rights and Wrongs.
In the fall of 1993 Prof. Wolterstorff 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; and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.