Shalom-speaker
Nicholas Wolterstorff received his A.B. from Calvin College in 1953, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1956. After teaching philosophy for two years at Yale, he returned to the philosophy department at his alma mater in 1959. He returned to Yale in 1989, where he was a member of the Divinity School, of the Philosophy Department, and of the Religious Studies Department. He has taught, during leaves of absence, at Haverford College, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, the University of Texas, Notre Dame University, and the Free University of Amsterdam. He retired from teaching at the end of 2001, and is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University. Currently he is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, at the University of Virginia.
He has been President of the American Philosophical Association, and of the Society of Christian Philosophers; he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among the lectures he has given are the Wilde Lectures at Oxford University, the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews University, and the Stone Lectures at Princeton Seminary. Among the books he has published are On Universals, Works and Worlds of Art, Art in Action, Until Justice and Peace Embrace, Reason within the Bounds of Religion, Divine Discourse, John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology, Educating for Shalom, and Lament for a Son.
Panelists for the afternoon session will be:
Rev. Dr. Rolf Bouma, Director of the Center for Faith and Scholarship at the Campus Chapel, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dr. Heather DeHaan, Assistant Professor of History, SUNY Binghamton
Dr. J. Richard Middleton, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Roberts Wesleyan College
See these links to articles/excerpts by Wolterstorff on the theme of Shalom.
A Shalom View of Human Flourishing (scroll down to page 6)