Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. Before going to Yale he taught philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for thirty years. His other books include Justice in Love, Educating for Shalom, The God We Worship, and Lament for a Son.
John Witte Jr.-- Emory University
"For the past three decades Nicholas Wolterstorff has crafted a
devastating philosophical critique of and a bracing Christian
alternative to John Rawls's Theory of Justice. In this exquisite
new book of political theology, he tours the perennially contested
questions of eros and agape, rule and equity, discipline and mercy,
responsibility and forgiveness, justice and righteousness. Learned,
judicious, strikingly innovative, and crystal clear, this book has
all the marks of yet another Wolterstorff classic in the making."
Miroslav Volf
-- in Books and Culture
"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." Comment
"Lucid, stirring, and provocative. . . . Offers a feast of insight,
wisdom, and clarification." Interpretation
"A significant and important work." Reviews in Religion &
Theology
"What has love to do with justice? In this intellectually rigorous
work, one of the world's preeminent Christian philosophers argues
that a cogent view linking the two is both possible and inevitable
given the claims of the Christian tradition itself. Making such an
argument requires cutting through several difficult problems, a
task Wolterstorff does with clarity and a respect for other views
that deserves wide imitation." Theological Book review
"A well-researched, informative, and well-argued book. . . . This
book is a must read for any Christian ethicist." Regent's
Reviews
"Wolterstorff's writing is lucid, his insistence on uniting
philosophy, theology and biblical exegesis within a single work is
exemplary, and his contribution deserves to mark the debate about
justice, love and forgiveness in the twenty-first century."
Presbyterian Outlook
"Sometimes, a book comes along that entirely reshapes consideration
of a key topic in theology and philosophy. Such a book is Nicholas
Wolterstorff's Justice in Love." Sharing the Practice
"Nicholas Wolterstorff has written an important book that seeks to
make explicit what is implicit in the liturgy. . . . Extremely
helpful and worth reading closely."
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