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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.
May 1, 2009 · Abstract. Next to several other domains in philosophy, in his writings Professor Nicholas P. Wolterstorff has also dealt with issues belonging to the field of philosophy of education. In his own Christian, creative and open way he is striving to use the ties between education and character formation on the one hand, and his Christian theology ...
- Siebren Miedema
- 2009
May 25, 2019 · The central breadth of the book focuses mainly on life in the philosophical academy: grad school at Harvard, some years teaching at Yale, a thirty-year stretch at Calvin College, then a final dozen years at Yale Divinity school, along with guest lectureships in the UK, the Netherlands, and elsewhere during and after his primary career.
In Educating for Shalom, Clarence W. Joldersma and Gloria Goris Stronks collect nineteen of Wolterstorffs most important essays addressing this question. The book also includes a Preface and Introduction to Wolterstorff's thought on these issues by Joldersma and Stronks as well as an autobiographical Afterword by Wolterstorff.
The editors have arranged the talks around four themes: 1) the nature of Christian education; 2) the challenges to Christian schools; 3) Christian learning in a pluralistic society; and 4) the purpose of Christian education.
EDUCATING FOR RESPONSIBLE ACTION In 1980 Wolterstorff published Educating for Responsible Action in which he set out his systematic philosophy of education and explained that the aim of educators should not only be ‘cognitive (or intellectual) learning’ and ‘ability learning’ but ‘tendency learning’ as well (Wolterstorff 1980, p. 3).
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Apr 16, 2019 · Wolterstorff, who retired from teaching in 2002, is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School. He helped found the Society of Christian Philosophers with Alvin Plantinga in 1978 and was the Gifford Lecturer at St. Andrews in 1995.
