Eerdmans Nicholas Wolterstorff Collection (2 vols.)

This book is a flood of light. It has all the Wolterstorff marks, including brilliant clarity and powerful illumination of his subject.

—Cornelius Plantinga Jr., senior research fellow, Calvin Theological Seminary

In his usual graceful way Wolterstorff leads the reader to see what is implicit in Christian liturgy, and to find there a God who listens and hears, who is vulnerable to being wronged and resisted. . . . A major contribution to liturgical theology.

—William Dyrness, professor of theology and culture, Fuller Theological Seminary

For many years, Nicholas Wolterstorff has helped us penetrate the character of worship, combining the acuity of a philosopher and the wisdom of a lifelong practitioner. Now he brings all this to a head in a superbly written study.

—Jeremy Begbie, Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology, Duke University

Nicholas Wolterstorff here gives us a true liturgical theology—not a theology about liturgy but, rather, the explicit and implicit theology in the actions and order of worship. The ripple effects are profound, implicating understandings of God, persons, time, prayer, lament, and much more. There is little doubt that this book will be a landmark in the terrain of liturgical theology.

—Leanne Van Dyk, professor of Reformed theology, Western Theological Seminary

In this timely study Wolterstorff brings his sharp philosophical and theological mind to bear on specific liturgical texts and explores how the church, in enacting the liturgy, hands on its implicit understanding of God. This work will be a crucial text for any serious study of liturgical theology.

—Bryan Spinks, Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology, Yale Divinity School

Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a magisterial book. In it and in its companion volume Justice in Love, Wolterstorff has gotten justice right.

—Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School

Learned, judicious, strikingly innovative, and crystal clear, this book has all the marks of yet another Wolterstorff classic in the making.

—John Witte Jr., Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University

The idea that justice and love are different, incompatible starting points for thinking about the moral life has led to the fragmentation of ethics among the disciplines of philosophy, theology, and law. In Justice in Love Nicholas Wolterstorff puts the pieces back together with careful argument, historical understanding, and fresh thinking about biblical texts. Anyone interested in Christian ethics will find new possibilities here, not only in relation to moral philosophy but also for pastoral care and political life.

—Robin W. Lovin, Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics, Southern Methodist University

In the view of many, Nicholas Wolterstorff is the preeminent Protestant Christian philosopher in the English-speaking world. Justice in Love is an excellent addition to his profound works that have justly earned him this title. In its philosophically astute and theologically informed argument for ‘agapic love,’ which the Bible and Christian (especially Reformed) tradition teach, this book very much elevates both the theological and the philosophical discussion of this key doctrine. It should be of great interest to theists, both Christian and Jewish.

—David Novak, professor of religion and philosophy, University of Toronto