United in Love

Nicholas P. Wolterstorff is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and author of many books including Until Justice and Peace Embrace (1983), Lament for a Son (1987), Divine Discourse (1995), Justice: Rights and Wrongs (2008), Justice in Love (2011), Art Rethought (2015), Acting Liturgically (2018), and Religion in the University (2019).

"Some thinkers labor in a particular furrow, hand to the plough, making progress on an area or line of argument over the course of time. Others, like Nicholas Wolterstorff, manage to contribute to the propagation of several different intellectual crops in different fields. In this work, he brings together essays in areas in which he has made signal contributions individually: on the notion of justice, on art and aesthetics, and on liturgy - binding them together with love. It is an important collection of his work, and a valuable contribution to the cross-fertilization of these distinct areas, which he has done so much to help flourish." - Oliver D. Crisp, Professor of Analytic Theology and Director of the Logos Institute, University of St Andrews"We can always rely on Nicholas Wolterstorff for original and philosophically astute insights on matters which we often - wrongly - take for granted. Here, in his most recent set of collected essays, he brings together his reflections on justice, aesthetics, and liturgy, and finally unites them under the category of divine love. Let us not imagine that Wolterstorff has finished his thinking, for here we see yet new enrichment and depth." - Sarah Coakley, FBA, University of Cambridge and Australian Catholic University

• Foreword, by Alan J. TorranceAcknowledgementsUnited in Love1. The Underlying Unity of Love, Justice, Art, and LiturgyJustice2. Love and Justice3. What Makes Gratuitous Generosity Sometimes Unjust?4. The Just Limits of Love; or Why an Ethic of Pure BenevolenceIs Not Sufficient for Morality5. All Justice Is Social, but Not All Justice Is Social Justice6. Religious Intolerance and the Wounds of God7. Modern Protestant Developments in Human RightsArt8. Human Flourishing and Art That Enhances the Ordinary9. What Sort of Worth Do Works of Art Have?10. Art and the Formation of Just Persons11. Social Protest Art and the Graphic Art of Georges RouaultLiturgy12. Sacrament as Action, Not Presence13. Preaching the Word of God14. Knowing God by Liturgically Addressing God15. Art and LiturgyAfterwordBibliographyIndex