Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University. He is the author thirty books, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and former president of the American Philosophical Association.

Philosophers of religion have classically engaged with topics such as God's existence and attributes, the problem of evil, and the question of miracles. Ritual, in contrast, has often been viewed as the preserve of religious studies scholars. In this dense but thoughtful collection based on work produced over several decades, Nicholas Wolterstorff corrects both of these assumptions by bringing strictly philosophical tools to bear on Christian liturgy. The Yale philosophical theologian attends to actions and texts, and in so doing endorses the turns to religious experience and to language that characterize contemporary philosophy of religion.

• PART ONE: LITURGY, ENACTMENTS, AND SCRIPTS; PART TWO: LITURGY AND SCRIPTURE; PART THREE: GOD IN THE LITURGY; PART FOUR: LITURGY, LOVE, AND JUSTICE

Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University. He is the author thirty books, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and former president of the American Philosophical Association.

Philosophers of religion have classically engaged with topics such as God's existence and attributes, the problem of evil, and the question of miracles. Ritual, in contrast, has often been viewed as the preserve of religious studies scholars. In this dense but thoughtful collection based on work produced over several decades, Nicholas Wolterstorff corrects both of these assumptions by bringing strictly philosophical tools to bear on Christian liturgy. The Yale philosophical theologian attends to actions and texts, and in so doing endorses the turns to religious experience and to language that characterize contemporary philosophy of religion.

• PART ONE: LITURGY, ENACTMENTS, AND SCRIPTS; PART TWO: LITURGY AND SCRIPTURE; PART THREE: GOD IN THE LITURGY; PART FOUR: LITURGY, LOVE, AND JUSTICE