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Book Review

Publication Date

2026

Abstract

Over the last 50 years, Nicholas Wolterstorff has been one of the leaders of the renaissance in Christian philosophy, while also contributing significantly to reflection on Christian education. He has written several earlier autobiographical accounts, one focused on spiritual themes, “The Grace That Shaped My Life” (1993), and a speech to the American Philosophical Association on specifically philosophical aspects of his training and career, “A Life in Philosophy” (2007). At 17 and 14 pages respectively, the aforementioned publications were much briefer than this 334-page memoir. A third can be found in parts of his book Journey toward Justice (2013), where he describes how his concerns for the oppressed were awakened and his thinking on justice grew and matured. Portions from each of these previous works can be recognized in In This World of Wonders, although greatly expanded and set within a narrative framework of his life.

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Originally published in Choi, I. (2024). In This World of Wonders: Memoir of a Life in Learning: By Nicholas Wolterstorff, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2019, 334 pp., $25.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9780802876799. Christian Higher Education, 23(4), 420–422. https://doi.org/10.1080/15363759.2023.2171630

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