Projects:
Prof. Wolfe is leading a five-year research project entitled Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology (2019-2024), with Dr King-Ho Leung (Senior Research Fellow in Philosophical Theology).
She is also leading a three-year research project entitled Art as Revelation (2022-2025), building on the recently completed Mapping the Imagination (2020-2022), with Dr Brendan Wolfe (Co-Investigator) and Dr Marina Iosifian (Senior Research Fellow in Psychology).
At Australian Catholic University, she is co-leading a five-year project with Dr Phil McCosker and Prof. Stephan van Erp entitled Theologies of Catholicity (2021-2026), and a five-year project with Prof. Eleonore Stump entitled Philosophy and Theology of Biblical Narratives (2019-2024).
She is a Senior Editor of the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology (2020- ).
Books:
Prof. Wolfe is currently completing a monograph entitled Philosophical Myths of the End for Oxford University Press.
In autumn 2024, she is publishing The Theological Imagination, based on her Hulsean Lectures for the University of Cambridge, with Cambridge University Press.
Prof. Wolfe is editing the Oxford History of Modern German Theology (3 volumes) with Johannes Zachhuber and David Lincicum (OUP 2024-26), and the Cambridge Companion to Eschatology (CUP 2026).
Current and Recent Research Networks:
Romano Guardini’s Der Gegensatz (2024-2026)
With Holger Zaborowski, Phil McCosker, and Stephan van Erp, Prof. Wolfe is leading a project to translate Guardini’s early philosophical Programmschrift, and to encourage its scholarly reception through a conference and publication.
Theology and Visual Art (2024-2027)
Prof. Wolfe is participating in a multi-year research network investigating the hermeneutics of theological engagements with visual art, led by Prof. Ben Quash and Dr Chloë Reddaway at King’s College London.
Reading R.M. Rilke and T.S. Eliot Theologically and Philosophically (2019)
This network centred on a philosophically and theologically informed reading of Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Eliot’s Four Quartets. The network was led by Prof. Judith Wolfe (St Andrews) and Prof. Thomas Pfau (Duke), and included Dr Malcolm Guite (Cambridge), Prof. Kevin Hart (Virginia), Prof. Cyril O’Regan (Notre Dame), Prof. Christoph Schwöbel (St Andrews), Prof. David Wellbery (Chicago), and Lord Rowan Williams (Cambridge). A three-day reading colloquium was held in St Andrews in March 2019.
Philosophy and Theology in Germany, 1918-1933 (2017-2019)
This network facilitated a focused, cross-disciplinary conversation about the struggles of German philosophy and theology to regain their bearings during the decade and a half following the end of WWI. The network was led by Prof. Thomas Pfau (Duke) and Dr Judith Wolfe (St Andrews), and included John Betz (Notre Dame), Peter Gordon (Harvard), Paul Mendes-Flohr (Chicago), Cyril O’Regan (Notre Dame), Thomas Sheehan (Stanford), and Holger Zaborowski (Vallendar).
The primary output was a special issue of Modern Theology, vol. 35, no. 1 (January 2019).
Image as Theology (2016-2019)
This interdisciplinary network explored how images have guided the development of theological formulations in the past and, more generally, how images can facilitate theological expression in a way words cannot. It was led by Dr Casey Strine (Sheffield), Dr Mark McInroy (University of St Thomas), and Dr Alexis Torrance (Notre Dame), and included researchers from the US and Europe. It was funded by the Manfred Lautenschläger Stiftung and the University of Notre Dame.
The primary output is a volume entitled Image as Theology, published in 2020 as Arts and the Sacred 5.
For Prof. Wolfe’s published research, go to Publications.