Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff was born on 21 January 1932 in Bigelow, Minnesota. One of the most distinguished Christian philosophers of the twentieth century, he helped establish Christian philosophy as prominent feature of American academia. Beginning as Lecturer at Yale in 1957, he returned to his alma matter, Calvin College, as Professor of Philosophy where he remained for thirty years. In 1978, he helped establish the Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP). He retired as Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale, achieving emeritus status in 2002.
Kuyper Chair at the Free University of Amsterdam, Wolterstorff was also President of the American Philosophical Association, Wilde Lecturer at Oxford, and Stone Lecturer at Princeton. A prolific author, his works include Reason Within the Bounds of Religion (1976), Faith and Rationality, co-authored with Plantinga and the seminal work that launched Reformed Epistemology (1984), John Locke and the Ethics of Belief (1996), Works and Worlds of Art and in Action (1980), Until Justice and Peace Embrace (1983), Lament for a Son, on his experience of grief (1994), and Justice in Love (2015).
