This is the official website of Professor Keith Ward. Read an introduction to his academic career together with recommended books to help understand his thinking.
Read about recent lectures, books and posts from the last two years. Read a fuller CV to find out more about his career.
Browse a full book list including articles in books on the subjects of Faith and Reason, the Diversity of Religions, the Idea of God, Liberal Theology, Religion and Science, and Ethical Issues.
In August 2015 Cambridge University Press published ‘Christ and the Cosmos: a Reformulation of Trinitarian doctrine’. This rather ambitious title defends the general views of Barth and Rahner that God is supremely one, existing in three modes of deeply integrated being, and not some sort of society with three different centres of consciousness (the ‘social Trinity’).
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In 2014 I published ‘The Evidence for God’ (Darton, Longman, and Todd), which is sub-titled ‘the case for the existence of the spiritual dimension’. I try to show how art and morality can be helpfully regarded as creative responses to objectively existing values of beauty and goodness, which demand human attention and appropriate action. So this universe is one where objective values and purposes exist, the human purpose being to realise those values in a creative way.
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