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Nicholas Wolterstorff (Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff) was born on 21 January, 1932 in Bigelow, Minnesota, US, is an American philosopher. Discover Nicholas Wolterstorff's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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Age 92 years old
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Born 21 January, 1932
Birthday 21 January
Birthplace Bigelow, Minnesota, US
Nationality United States

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1932

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.

Wolterstorff was born on January 21, 1932, to Dutch emigrants in a small farming community in southwest Minnesota.

1953

After earning his BA in philosophy at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1953, he entered Harvard University, where he earned his MA and PhD in philosophy, completing his studies in 1956.

He then spent a year at the University of Cambridge, where he met C. D. Broad.

1957

From 1957 to 1959, he was an instructor in philosophy at Yale University.

Then he took the post of Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College and taught for 30 years.

He is now teaching at Yale as Noah Porter Professor Emeritus Philosophical Theology.

1987

In 1987 Wolterstorff published Lament for a Son after the untimely death of his 25-year-old son Eric in a mountain climbing accident.

In a series of short essays, Wolterstorff recounts how he drew on his Christian faith to cope with his grief.

Wolterstorff explained that he published the book "in the hope that it will be of help to some of those who find themselves with us in the company of mourners."

He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, the University of Oxford, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, Temple University, the Free University of Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit), and the University of Virginia.

2002

He has been retired since June 2002.

2007

In 2007, he received an honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

2019

Wolterstorff published his memoir with William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. in 2019, illustrating the close relationship between his personal life and his distinguished academic career.

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.

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.