
James Olthuis, PhD (Free University, Amsterdam), B.D., (Calvin College), is professor of philosophical theology at the Institute for Christian Studies. Olthuis joined the ICS faculty in 1968. He concentrates on philosophical anthropology, hermeneutics, ethics and psychotherapy. He has published Facts, Values and Ethics: A Confrontation with Twentieth Century British Moral Philosophy; I Pledge You My Troth: A Christian View of Marriage, Family and Friendship; Keeping Our Troth; A Hermeneutics of Ultimacy: Peril or Promise; and The Beautiful Risk: A New Psychology of Loving and Being Loved. He is the editor of Knowing Other-wise, Towards an Ethics of Community, and Religion With/out Religion. Olthuis has a long list of scholarly articles, popular articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects, especially philosophical anthropology, postmodern philosophy, hermeneutics and psychotherapy.