Keith Ward

For the Irish footballer, see Keith Ward (footballer).

ISBN 978-0-7459-5262-8; rev. ed. with additional chapter on evolutionary psychology (2010)

Religion and Human Fulfilment (2008).

Is Religion Irrational? (2011)

Religion in the Modern World (2019). Cambridge University Press.

Books on the philosophy of religion include:

• The Concept of God (1974) ISBN   978-0-312-15925-2
• Holding Fast to God (1982) ISBN   978-0-687-85476-9 – a critique of Taking Leave of God by the radical theologian Don Cupitt
• Rational Theology and the Creativity of God (1984) ISBN   0-631-12597-3
• Images of Eternity (1987) ISBN   978-0-232-51686-9; reissued as Concepts of God (1998) ISBN   978-1-85168-064-1
• God, A Guide for the Perplexed (2002) ISBN   978-1-85168-323-9
• The Battle for the Soul (1985) ISBN   978-0-340-37278-4. Reissued by BBC Books in 1986. Reissued as Defending the Soul (1992) and In Defence of the Soul (1998) ISBN   978-1-85168-040-5
• Why There Almost Certainly Is a God (2008) ISBN   978-0-7459-5330-4 (UK) ISBN   978-0-8254-7843-7 (US)
• The God Conclusion (2009), published in the US as God and the Philosophers
• More Than Matter: What Humans Really Are (2010) ISBN   978-0-7459-6247-4
• The Evidence for God: A Case for the Existence of the Spiritual Dimension (2014) ISBN   978-0232531305
• The Christian Idea of God: A Philosophical Foundation for Faith (2017) ISBN   978-1108410212
• Sharing in the Divine Nature (2020). Wipf and Stock.

Books on the Christian faith include:

• The Christian Way (1976) ISBN   978-0-281-02893-1
• A Vision to Pursue (1991) ISBN   978-0-334-02411-8
• God, Faith and the New Millennium (1998)
• Christianity: A Short Introduction (2000) ISBN   978-1-85168-229-4, republished as Christianity: A Beginner's Guide
• Christianity: A Guide for the Perplexed (2007)
• Re-thinking Christianity (2007) ISBN   978-1-85168-506-6
• Christ and the Cosmos: A Reformulation of Trinitarian Doctrine (2015) ISBN   978-1107531819

Books on religion and science include:

• God, Chance and Necessity (1996) ISBN   978-1-85168-116-7
• Pascal's Fire – Scientific Faith and Religious Understanding (2006) ISBN   978-1-85168-446-5
• Divine Action: Examining God's Role in an Open and Emergent Universe (2008)
• The Big Questions in Science and Religion (2008)

Books on the Bible and its interpretation include:

• Is Christianity a Historical Religion? (1992) ISBN   978-0-85217-054-0
• What the Bible Really Teaches: A Challenge for Fundamentalists. 2004. ISBN   978-0-281-05680-4.
• The Word of God? The Bible After Modern Scholarship (2010)
• The Philosopher and the Gospels (2011) ISBN   978-0-7459-5562-9
• Love Is His Meaning: Understanding The Teaching Of Jesus (2017) ISBN   978-0281077632
• Parables About Time and Eternity (2021)

Books on comparative and systematic theology include:

• Religion and Revelation (1994) ISBN   978-0-19-826375-3 (1993–94) Gifford Lectures
• Religion and Creation (1996) ISBN   978-0-19-826394-4
• Religion and Human Nature (1998) ISBN   978-0-19-826965-6
• Religion and Community (2000) ISBN   978-0-19-875259-2
• Religion and Human Fulfillment (2008) ISBN   978-0-334-04163-4

Books on ethics and religion include:

• Ethics and Christianity (1970) ISBN   978-0-04-241001-2
• Kant's View of Ethics (1972)
• The Divine Image (1976) ISBN   978-0-281-02935-8
• The Rule of Love (1989) ISBN   978-0-232-51824-5
• God, Autonomy, and Morality (2013)

Other books include:

• Fifty Key Words in Philosophy (1968). Lutterworth Press.
• The Promise (1980; rev. ed. 2010). SPCK.
• The Living God (1984) ISBN   978-0-281-04126-8
• The Turn of the Tide (1986)
• What Do We Mean By God?: A Little Book of Guidance (2015) ISBN   978-0281073283
• The Mystery of Christ: Meditations and Prayers (2018) ISBN   978-0281079155
• Confessions of a Recovering Fundamentalist (2020) ISBN   9781532696725

Multimedia

• Keith Ward (13 March 2008). The Triumph of Idealism - Transcript and video. London: Gresham College. Other lectures with transcripts, recorded 2004–2015, are also available on the Gresham College Youtube channel.
• Philosophy, Science and The God Debate, a two-DVD set of filmed interviews with Keith Ward, Alister McGrath and John Lennox, and produced by the Nationwide Christian Trust, OCLC   754656873 Product Code 5055307601776 (November 2011) ^[7]

See also

• Boyle Lectures

References

1. Professor Keith Ward Archived 11 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine , Gresham College profile, Accessed 26 January 2007
2. "Ward, Keith" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. "Online lecture archive at Gresham College". Archived from the original on 26 December 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2008.
4. Keith Ward's Oxford University profile Archived 29 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine , Accessed, 7 November 2006
5. Video interview by Robert Wright for meaningoflife.tv Archived 5 March 2002 at the Wayback Machine at 28:00 and following
6. Ward 2004.
7. "Keith Ward Audio / Video". Keith Ward. Archived from the original on 12 November 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2011.

Further reading

• Comparative Theology: Essays for Keith Ward ed T. W. Bartel (2003) ISBN   978-0-281-05474-9
• By Faith and Reason: The Essential Keith Ward eds Wm. Curtis Holtzen and Roberto Sirvent (2012) ISBN   978-0-232-52898-5

External links

• Official website
• Keith Ward, Metanexus Senior Fellow

The Reverend Keith Ward FBA
Born	(1938-08-22) 22 August 1938 (age 87) Hexham, England
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Anglican)
Church	Church of England
Ordained	1972 (priest)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Wales Linacre College, Oxford
Influences	Thomas Aquinas Karl Barth Plato Immanuel Kant George Berkeley Ramanuja Richard Swinburne Karl Rahner

Academic offices
Preceded by Baroness Warnock	Gifford Lecturer at the University of Glasgow 1993–1994	Succeeded by Geoffrey Cantor
		Succeeded by John Hedley Brooke
Preceded by Maurice Wiles	Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford 1991—2004	Succeeded by Marilyn McCord Adams
Preceded by Gwen Griffith-Dickson	Gresham Professor of Divinity 2004–2008	Succeeded by Lord Harries of Pentregarth
Other offices
Preceded by Malcolm Jeeves	Boyle Lecturer 2009	Succeeded by John Hedley Brooke