Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff is faculty emeritus of philosophical theology at Yale Divinity School, where he previously held the Noah Porter Professorship of Philosophical Theology. He earned his B.A. at Calvin College and his Ph.D. from Harvard.

After concentrating on metaphysics at the beginning of his career, Dr. Wolterstorff spent many years working on aesthetics and philosophy of art, publishing Works and Worlds of Art (Oxford, 1980) and Art in Action: Toward a Christian Aesthetic (Eerdmans 1980; 2nd ed., 1995). He then produced seminal work in epistemology (John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, Cambridge, 1996; Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology, Cambridge, 2001); political philosophy (Until Justice and Peace Embrace, Eerdmans, 1983; 2nd ed., 1994); and philosophy of religion (Divine Discourse, Cambridge, 1995). His newest book, Justice: Rights and Wrongs, will be available in 2008 from Princeton University Press.

He has been president of the American Philosophical Association (Central Division) and of the Society of Christian Philosophers. His current research brings together two of his earlier interests: beauty and justice and how they relate. Dr. Wolterstorff has long been a thoughtful and articulate spokesperson for Christian higher education, and his Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Education (Eerdmans, 2004) won the first Lilly Fellows Network Book Award.