Eleonore Stump

Eleonore Stump (born August 9, 1947) is an American philosopher and the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she has taught since 1992.

Biography
Eleonore Stump received her first degree, a B.A. in classical languages, from Grinnell College in 1969. She was class valedictorian and received the Archibald Prize for scholarship. She has an M.A. in biblical studies (New Testament) from Harvard University (1971), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in medieval studies (medieval philosophy) from Cornell University (1975). In 1992 she joined Saint Louis University where she is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy. Before coming to Saint Louis University, she taught at Oberlin College, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the University of Notre Dame. Currently, she also holds secondary or honorary appointments at Wuhan University, Blackfriars Hall at Oxford University, and University of York.

She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include Aquinas (2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010), The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers (2016), Atonement (2018), ''The Image of God. The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022), and Grains of Wheat: Suffering and Biblical Narratives'' (2024). She has given the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), Joseph McCarthy Lecturer (Pontifical Gregorian University, 2004), the Wilde lectures (Oxford, 2006), the Stewart lectures (Princeton, 2009), the Aquinas Lecture (Marquette, 2016), the Stanton lectures (Cambridge, 2018), the Dewey Lecture (the American Philosophical Association, 2023).

Among her honors are the Aquinas medal awarded by the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2013), American Maritain Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), the award of Johanna Quandt Young Academy Distinguished Senior Scientist by the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany (2021), and the Edmund Campion Award by Saint Louis University (2024). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and she holds honorary doctorates from Marquette University (2006), Tilburg University (2017), Austral University in Buenos Aires (2021), and the Hochschule fuer Philosophie in Munich (2024). She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Philosophers in Jesuit Education, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division.

Among the grants she has held are grants from Danforth Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, the Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion, the Pew Charitable Trust, the National Humanities Center, and the Issachar Fund. In addition, she has received several teaching awards, including, in 2004, the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching from Baylor University. In 2013–15, together with John Greco, she held a $3.3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project on intellectual humility.