Nicholas Wolterstorff

Nicholas Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Born	Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff; January 21, 1932; Bigelow, Minnesota, US
Spouse	Claire Wolterstorff (m. 1955)
Academic background
Alma mater	Calvin College; Harvard University;
Thesis	Whitehead's Theory of Individuals (1956)
Academic advisors	Donald Cary Williams
Influences	Augustine of Hippo; John Calvin; William Harry Jellema; Abraham Kuyper; Alvin Plantinga; Thomas Reid;
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy; theology;
Sub-discipline	Aesthetics; epistemology; liturgics; metaphysics; philosophical theology; philosophy of education; philosophy of religion; political philosophy;
School or tradition	Analytic philosophy; analytic theology; Calvinism;
Institutions	Calvin College; Yale University;
Doctoral students	Phillip Cary
Notable ideas	Reformed epistemology
Influenced	Gary Chartier; David Claerbaut; Kendall Walton;

Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff (born January 21, 1932) 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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