Several years ago, I approached Nick Wolterstorff with the idea of publishing his papers in the philosophy of religion and epistemology. Lying behind the suggestion was the thought that it would be good for the philosophical community to have these essays, which lay scattered in various essay collections and journals, collected together. Nick liked the idea and, fortunately, so did Cambridge University Press. The result is two volumes of Nick's collected papers: Inquiring about God and Practices of Belief.

Nick and I chose to include the thirteen chapters that comprise this volume. Our primary principle of selection was to include self-standing essays that have minimal overlap with each other and the various books that Nick has published. With the exception of the Introduction and chapter 10, “Is God disturbed by what transpires in human aff airs?”, the essays that appear in this volume have all been previously published and are in more or less their original form. Editing has been done here and there to increase clarity, minimize overlap, and bring some language up to date.