Graham Ward (theologian)

The Reverend Canon Graham Ward
Born	Graham John Ward (1955-10-25) 25 October 1955 (age 69) Manchester, England [1]
Title	Regius Professor of Divinity (2012-2024)
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Anglican)
Church	Church of England
Ordained	1990 (deacon) 1991 (priest)
Academic background
Alma mater	Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Selwyn College, Cambridge
Influences	Thomas Aquinas [2] Augustine of Hippo [2] Jacques Derrida [2]

In Cities of God (2000), Ward declared his support for same-sex relationships: ^[2]

... I am a male, Christian theologian who openly advocates same-sex unions, who has friends dying or living with the fear of AIDS, and a family who lives the shadows, embarrassments and sufferings of a genetic disorder. But each of us moves out from where we are placed and place ourselves, and in doing so understands that we are also elsewhere. ^[9]

Books and edited volumes

• Another Kind of Normal: Ethical Life II (Oxford University Press, 2022), ISBN   9780192843012
• Theology and Religion: Why It Matters (Polity, 2019), ISBN   9781509529698
• Unimaginable: What We Imagine and What We Can't (I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2018) ISBN   9781784537579
• How the Light Gets In: Ethical Life I (Oxford University Press, 2016), ISBN   9780199297658
• Unbelievable: Why We Believe and Why We Don't (I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2014), ISBN   9781780767352
• The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens (SCM Press, 2009), ISBN   9780334043508
• Christ and Culture (Blackwell, 2005), ISBN   9781405121408
• Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2004), ISBN   9780521540742
• True Religion (Blackwell, 2002), ISBN   9780631221746
• Cities of God (Routledge, 2000), ISBN   9780415202565
• Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory (Macmillan, 1996, 2nd edition 2000), ISBN   9781596930223
• Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology (Cambridge University Press, 1995), ISBN   9780521657082
• (Edited, with Michael Hoelzl) Religion and Political Thought (Continuum, 2006), ISBN   9780826480057
• (Edited) The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology (Blackwell, 2004), ISBN   9781405127196
• (Edited) The Certeau Reader (2000), ISBN   9780631212799
• (Edited) Theology and Masculinity (The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 7, 1999)
• (Edited, with John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock) Radical Orthodoxy: a New Theology (Routledge, 1998), ISBN   9780415196994
• (Edited) The Postmodern God: a Theological Reader (Blackwell, 1997), ISBN   9780631201410

See also

• Ward has additionally rejected pantheism, pandeism and process thought. ^[10]
• The City of God (Augustine)

References

1. Wisse, Maarten (2010). "Introduction to the Thinking of Graham Ward". In Boeve, Lieven; Brabant, Christophe (eds.). Between Philosophy and Theology: Contemporary Interpretations of Christianity. Farnham, England: Ashgate. p. 65. ISBN   978-1-4094-8129-4.
2. Wisse, Maarten (2010). "Graham Ward's Poststructuralist Christian Nominalism". Sophia. 49 (3): 359. doi: 10.1007/s11841-010-0192-6 . hdl: 1871.1/57e5a3c2-bd5b-45c2-bee7-ab85eb8597d1 . ISSN   1873-930X.
3. Shortt, Rupert (2005). God's Advocates: Christian Thinkers in Conversation. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 112. ISBN   978-0-8028-3084-5.
4. "Ward, Rev. Canon Prof. Graham John, (born 25 Oct. 1955), Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford, since 2012; Fellow and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, since 2012" in Who's Who online, accessed 21 October 2023
5. "News - Christ Church, Oxford University". Chch.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
6. "The Queen has approved that Professor Graham Ward be appointed Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford". Number10.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
7. Graham Ward Religion and Political Thought, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006, p. 252.
8. "Christian Theology in Context - Oxford University Press". Ukcatalogue.oup.com. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
9. Cities of God (Psychology Press, 2000), p. 94
10. Graham Ward (2016). How the Light Gets In: Ethical Life I. p. 313. ISBN   978-0199297658. Attention to Christ and the Spirit delivers us from pantheism, pandeism, and process theology.

External links

• Graham Ward at the Religion and Civil Society Network ^{[ usurped ]}
• Interview with Graham Ward
• Theology and Masculinity - The Journal of Men's Studies
• Regius Professor of Divinity announcement
• University of Oxford - Regius Professor of Divinity - Graham Ward

Academic offices
Preceded by Marilyn McCord Adams	Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford 2012–present	Incumbent