Biblical Narratives and Human Flourishing: Knowledge Through Narrative

Biblical narratives include some of the most important and influential narratives in human history, shaping human understanding of the most basic questions of human life as lived individually or in social association with others.

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include Aquinas (2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010), Atonement (2018), The Image of God: The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022), and Grains of Wheat. Suffering and Biblical Narratives (2024).

Judith Wolfe is Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of St Andrews. Her core expertise is in eschatology and apocalypticism in theology, philosophy, and literature, on which she has published widely. With Oxford University Press, she has published Heidegger’s Eschatology, The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought, and the three-volume Oxford History of Modern German Theology.