Philosophers Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Culture, University of Virginia, 2005 Endowed lectureships 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 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 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. In Justice in Love, he rejects fundamentist notions of Christianity that hold to the necessity of the penal substitutionary atonement and justification by faith alone. Bibliography Selected writings 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