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Prof Judith Wolfe

Professor of Philosophical Theology

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2833

Email

judith.wolfe@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Biography

Judith Wolfe joined the School of Divinity in 2014, after previous appointments as Director of Studies in Theology at St John’s College, Oxford, and post-doctoral fellow at the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin.

Besides her involvement in the leadership of the School of Divinity, Professor Wolfe serves internationally on advisory and editorial boards in the areas of theology, philosophical theology, and theology and the arts. She is general editor ofÌýOxford Studies in Philosophical TheologyÌýand of theÌýJournal of Inklings Studies.

She has been an invited speaker at academic conferences, seminars and workshops in the UK, USA, across Europe, and in the Middle East. She also speaks and writes internationally at literary festivals, other public events, and in the media. She has spoken about the philosophy of hope on BBC Radio 4’s , and about theology and the arts on PBS’s Closer to Truth. A short documentary on her work has been filmed for the series .Ìý

She holds a BA in English Literature and Interdisciplinary Honours Studies (Amirim) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, an MPhil in English Literature (1500-1660) from Oxford, an MA in Theology from Oxford, and a DPhil in Theology, also from Oxford.

Teaching

DI1001 God and the World (with Revd Katrin Bosse)
DI2010 Philosophical TheologyÌý
DI3703 Readings in Reformation and Early Modern TheologyÌýÌý
DI5415 EschatologyÌý
DI5451 Christian Doctrine and the ArtsÌýÌý
DI5453 Practical CriticismÌýÌý
DI5501 Origins of Christian TheologyÌý Ìý
DI5521 A Selected Modern TheologianÌý
DI5527 Theology in 20th-Century German Literature

Research areas

Professor Wolfe works in systematic theology, philosophical theology in the European tradition, and theology and the arts. Her main research focus is on eschatology (the role of the 'last things' in theological, philosophical and literary thought), on the imagination, and on the ways theology, philosophy, literature, art, and psychology interact. She also works in historical and systematic theology.Ìý

Prof. Wolfe's most recent book is The Theological ImaginationÌý(Cambridge University Press, 2024).

She has published widely on eschatological themes in theology, in European philosophy (especially Martin Heidegger and his circle), and in literature (especially the romance tradition from Shakespeare's late plays to C.S. Lewis).Ìý

PhD supervision

• ChristinaÌýEickenroht
• BlytheÌýKingcroft
• AustinÌýKopack
• MelodyÌýSchwarting
• LeeÌýWakeman
• SamÌýYule

Selected publications

• Wolfe, J., 9 Nov 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 196 p. (Current issues in theology)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Wolfe, J., 2022, (In preparation) Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Wolfe, J. (Editor), Lincicum, D. (Editor) & Zachhuber, J. (Editor), 2023, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Wolfe, J., 19 Jun 2014, London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark. 242 p. (Philosophy and theology)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Wolfe, J. (Editor) & Wolfe, B. N. (Editor), 2013, Kent: Kent State University Press. 184 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Wolfe, J. (Editor), Rasmussen, J. (Editor) & Zachhuber, J. (Editor), 22 Jun 2017, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 736 p. (Oxford handbooks )

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Open access
  Wolfe, J., 31 Aug 2022, Edinburgh critical history of twentieth-century Christian theology. Ziegler, P. G. (ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 333-344 12 p. (The Edinburgh critical history of Christian theology).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access
  Wolfe, J., 11 Aug 2022, Image as theology: the power of visual art in shaping Christian thought, devotion, and imagination. McInroy, M., Strine, C. & Torrance, A. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, (Arts and the Sacred; vol. 6).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access
  Wolfe, J., Jan 2019, In: Modern Theology. 35, 1, p. 55-70

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Wolfe, J., Dec 2019, Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought. Rasmussen, J., Wolfe, J. & Zachhuber, J. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 676-696 (Oxford Handbooks).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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