Eleonore Stump was born on 9 August 1947 in Frankfurt, Germany. One of the most prominent American philosophers of religion, she publishes on theology, philosophy, and biblical studies. Awarded a PhD from Cornell in 1975, she taught at Oberlin College, Virginia Tech, and the University of Notre Dame. She moved to Saint Louis University in 1992 and is currently the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy. She holds honorary appointments at Wuhan University, Blackfriars Hall at Oxford, and the University of York.
Stump is the recipient of the Aquinas Medal from the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Johanna Quandt Young Academy Distinguished Senior Scientist from the Goethe University, and the Edmund Campion Award from Saint Louis University. She was a grantee of the John Templeton Foundation in 2013 for a project on intellectual humility. Notable works include Dialectic and Its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic (1989), Reasoned Faith (1993), Philosophy of Religion (1998), Aquinas in the Arguments of the Philosophers series (2003), and The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers (2016).
