Prof Judith Wolfe

Prof Judith Wolfe

Professor of Philosophical Theology

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2833
Email
judith.wolfe@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

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 of Oxford Studies in Philosophical Theology and of the Journal 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 In Our Time, and about theology and the arts on PBS’s Closer to Truth. A short documentary on her work has been filmed for the series At the Threshold. 

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

DI2010 Philosophical Theology (with Dr Euan Grant)  
DI3703 Readings in Reformation and Early Modern Theology  
DI5415 Eschatology 
DI5451 Christian Doctrine and the Arts  
DI5453 Practical Criticism  
DI5501 Origins of Christian Theology   
DI5521 A Selected Modern Theologian 
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. 

Prof. Wolfe's most recent gook is The Theological Imagination (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). 

PhD supervision

  • Lee Wakeman
  • Austin Kopack
  • Blythe Kingcroft
  • Tomos Roberts-Young
  • Jarek Jankowski
  • Dante Clementi

Selected publications

  • The theological imagination: perception and interpretation in life, art, and faith

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

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Philosophical myths of the end

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

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Oxford history of modern German theology. 3 vols.

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

    Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

  • Heidegger and theology

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

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos

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

    Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

  • The Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century Christian thought

     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

  • Hope

     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

    The End of Images: towards a phenomenology of eschatological expectation

     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

    The eschatological turn in German philosophy

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

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

  • Open access

    Eschatology

     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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