Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter PRofessor of Philosophical Theology (emeritus), Yale University. He is a member of Church of the Servant, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter PRofessor of Philosophical Theology (emeritus), Yale University. He is a member of Church of the Servant, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I would guess that some readers of RW will find the theme of this issue, namely, worship and justice, a bit exotic; rather like yoking together a horse and an ox! Perhaps the editors were at their wits’ end to find a topic that had not already been treated. Some may even find the topic worrisome: if we aren’t careful, the social activists will take over!
When the Swiss Reformers rebelled against the liturgical traditions of the Roman Catholic Church, they did so in terms of a coherent, controlling idea, a new vision. They had what we now recognize as a distinctively “Reformed” view of what we should do in liturgy and how we should understand it.
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