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.
Recently published
The Philosopher and the Gospels (Lion, 2011). A philosophical study of the teaching of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels, suggesting that it falls under four main rather forbiddingly titled heads: conditional universalism, spiritual eschatology, responsive-participatory virtue ethics, and unitive idealism. The text is less forbidding than these headings, and seeks to be at once scholarly, challenging, and readable.
Is Religion Irrational
(Lion Hudson, 2011)
A defence of the reasonableness of belief in God. The book can be read on its own. But it is also the basis of a series of CD audio-talks, modelled on Oxford tutorials, produced by 'the invisible college', and titled 'Why I am not an Atheist'.