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Research

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 three-year project with Prof. Eleonore Stump entitled Philosophy and Theology of Biblical Narratives (2019-2022).

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 (2022).

She is also preparing the Hulsean Lectures for the University of Cambridge (2022) on the subject of The Theological Imagination.

Prof. Wolfe is editing the Oxford History of Modern German Theology (3 volumes) with Johannes Zachhuber and David Lincicum (OUP 2023), and the Cambridge Companion to Eschatology (CUP 2023).


Recent Research Networks:

Reading R.M. Rilke and T.S. Eliot Theologically and Philosophically (2019)

This network centres on a philosophically and theologically informed reading of Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Eliot’s Four Quartets. The network is led by Prof. Judith Wolfe (St Andrews) and Prof. Thomas Pfau (Duke), and includes 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 facilitates 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 is led by Prof. Thomas Pfau (Duke) and Dr Judith Wolfe (St Andrews), and includes 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 is a special issue of Modern Theology, vol. 35, no. 1 (January 2019).

Image as Theology (2016-2019)

This interdisciplinary network explores 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 is led by Dr Casey Strine (Sheffield), Dr Mark McInroy (University of St Thomas), and Dr Alexis Torrance (Notre Dame), and includes researchers from the US and Europe. It is funded by the Manfred Lautenschläger Stiftung and the University of Notre Dame.
The primary output is a volume entitled Image as Theology, to be published in 2020 as Arts and the Sacred 5.

For Prof. Wolfe’s published research, go to Publications.