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Dr. Stephen Wolfe

Dr. Stephen Wolfe

about the teacher

Stephen Wolfe completed his PhD in political philosophy at LSU in 2020. He is a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University.

He has several years of teaching experience, including college-level and online teaching, and has published many academic and popular articles. He was born and raised in Napa, California and currently lives in North Carolina with his wife and four children.

Teaching Philosophy

My teaching philosophy is oriented toward the formation of Christian wisdom. By wisdom, I mean the ability to navigate through and contend with our modern, secular world without sacrificing principle and with the goal of effective service to family, friends, civil society, and church. In other words, wisdom is the recognition, approval, and pursuit of things that are excellent. A liberal education liberates the mind from the common snares, tricks, distortions, manipulations, and schemes of the world in order to know and love what is true, good, and beautiful.

Statement of Faith

I affirm the Westminster Confession of Faith.

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Publications

Reformed Theology and the American Founding
A Rediscovery of Calvinist Sources
History of Political Thought (Vol. 39, Issue 3), 2018
Bénédict Pictet
Small Steps Towards Rationalism?
Journal of Reformed Theology (Vol. 11, Issue 3), 2017
Pagan Civil Virtue in the Thought of Francis Turretin
Beyond Calvin: Essays on the Diversity of the Reformed Tradition. Edited by Bradford Littlejohn and Jonathan Tomes (Moscow, ID: Davenant Trust), 2017
Reformed Natural Law and the American Founding
Found in For Law and For Liberty: The Trans-Atlantic Legacy of Protestant Political Thought. Edited by Bradford Littlejohn (Moscow, ID: Davenant TrustTrust), 2016

Education

MA
LSU - 2016
Political Science
MA
LSU - 2019
Philosophy
PhD
LSU - 2020
Political Theory