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Bibliography of Keith Ward's Publications

To the best of my knowledge, the following is a complete list of Keith Ward's published works, apart from a handful of occasional pieces in non-academic publications, and is arranged in chronological order within each category.

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I. Books and monographs

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Fifty Key Words in Philosophy
(London: Lutterworth Press, 1968)

 

Ethics and Christianity
(London: Allen and Unwin, 1970)
hardback

 

Development of Kant's View of Ethics
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1972)

 

The Concept of God
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1974; repr. London: Fount, 1977)
hardback

 

Christian Way
(London: SPCK, 1976)

 

Divine Image: The Foundations of Christian Morality
(London: SPCK, 1976)

 

The Promise
(London: SPCK, 1980)

 

The Law of Christ, the John Coffin Memorial Lecture
(London: University of London Publications Department, 1981)

 

Holding Fast to God: A Reply to Don Cupitt
(London: SPCK, 1982)

 

Rational Theology and the Creativity of God (hardback)
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1982; repr. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985)
paperback

 

Living God
(London: SPCK, 1984)

In Defence of the Soul

The Battle for the Soul: An Affirmation of Human Dignity and Value
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985);
repr. as In Defence of the Soul (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1992)

 

Turn of the Tide: Christian Belief in Britain Today
(London: BBC Books, 1986)

 

Evidence for the Virgin Birth
(Oxford: published by Mowbray for the Christian Evidence Society, 1987)

 

Images of Eternity: Concepts of God in Five Religious Traditions
(London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1987); repr. as Concepts of God: Images of the Divine in Five Religious Traditions (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1998)

 

The Rule of Love: Reflections on the Sermon on the Mount
(London: Daybreak, 1989)

 

Divine Action
(London: Collins, 1990)

 

A Vision to Pursue: Beyond the Crisis in Christianity
(London: SCM Press, 1991)

 

Is Christianity a Historical Religion?
Friends of Dr Williams's Library Lecture 46 (London: Dr Williams's Trust, 1992)

Religion and Revelation

Religion and Revelation: A Theology of Revelation in the World's Religions
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994); vol. 1 of the tetralogy in comparative theology

 

God, Chance and Necessity
(Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1996)

Religion and Creation

Religion and Creation
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996); vol. 2 of the tetralogy in comparative theology

God, Faith and the New Millennium

God, Faith and the New Millennium: Christian Belief in an Age of Science
(Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1998)

Religion and Human Nature

Religion and Human Nature
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998); vol. 3 of the tetralogy in comparative theology
hardback

Christianity: A short introduction

Christianity: A Short Introduction
(Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2000)

Religion and Community

Religion and Community
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000); vol. 4 of the tetralogy in comparative theology

God, a guide for the perplexed

God: a Guide for the Perplexed
(Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2002).

The Case for Religion

The Case for Religion
(Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2004)

What the Bible Really Teaches cover

What the Bible Really Teaches: A Challenge for Fundamentalists
(London: SPCK, 2004)

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II. Articles

'Myth and Fact in Christianity', Scottish Journal of Theology, 20 (1967), 385-96.

'The Unity of Space and Time', Philosophy, 42 (1967), 68-74.

'Existence, Transcendence and God', Religious Studies, 3 (1968), 461-76.

'The Headless Woman', Analysis, 29 (1968/9), 196.

'Christian Ethics and the Being of God', Scottish Journal of Theology, 22 (1969), 78-89.

'Freedom and the Irenaean Theodicy', Journal of Theological Studies, n.s., 20 (1969), 249-54.

'Incarnation and Atonement', Theology, 72 (1969), 386-92.

'The Ascription of Experiences', Mind, n.s., 79 (1970), 415-20.

'Moral Seriousness', Philosophy, 45 (1970), 114-27.

'Kant's Teleological Ethics', Philosophical Quarterly (Scotland), 21 (1971), 337-51.

'Theology in a University Context', Scottish Journal of Theology, 24 (1971), 290-304.

'Language and Understanding in Morality', Philosophy, 47 (1972), 249-62.

'AComment' [on Laurence Bright, OP, 'Humanist and Christian in Action', Theology, 75 (1972),525-33], Theology, 75 (1972), 533-5.

'Explanation and Mystery in Religion', Religious Studies, 9 (1973), 23-37.

'Recent Thinking on Christian Beliefs. II: The Concept of God', Expository Times, 88 (1976/7), 68-71.

'Changing Ethical Values: A Christian Assessment', in John Howe (ed.), Today's Church and Today's World, with a Special Focus on the Ministry of Bishops, The Lambeth Conference 1978: Preparatory Articles (London: CIO Publishing, 1977), 73-8.

'Incarnation or Inspiration - A False Dichotomy?', Theology, 80 (1977), 251-5.

'GegenwŠrtige Stršmungen in der Ethik in Gro§britannien', tr. C. Frey, Zeitschrift fur evangelische Ethik, 25 (1981), 244-57.

'The Just War and Nuclear Arms', in Francis Bridger (ed.), The Cross and the Bomb: Christian Ethics and the Nuclear Debate (London: A. R. Mowbray, 1983), 47-66.

'Miracles and Testimony', Religious Studies, 21 (1985), 131-45.

Untitled review article on Oliver O'Donovan, Begotten or Made? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), Theology, 88 (1985), 37-42.

'Persons, Kinds and Capacities', in Peter Byrne (ed.), Rights and Wrongs in Medicine: King's College Studies 1985-6 (London: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, 1986), 53-79.

'Reinhold Niebuhr and the Christian Hope', in Richard Harries (ed.), Reinhold Niebuhr and the Issues of Our Time (Oxford: A. R. Mowbray, 1986), 61-87.

'The Step of Faith', in Tony Moss (ed.), In Search of Christianity (London: Firethorn, 1986), 66-79.

'The God of the Doctrine Commission: A Critique of We Believe in God', King's Theological Review, 11 (1988), 1-3.

'Miracles', in Andrew Walker (ed.), Different Gospels: Christian Orthodoxy and Modern Theologies (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988), 97-111; repr. in Andrew Walker (ed.), Different Gospels: The New Edition (London: SPCK, 1993), 54-66.

'Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion in the Encyclopedia of Religion', Religious Studies, 24 (1988), 39-46.

'Christian Ethics', in Geoffrey Wainwright (ed.), Keeping the Faith: Essays to Mark the Centenary of 'Lux Mundi' (London: SPCK, 1989), 66-79.

'God as Creator', in Godfrey A. Vesey (ed.), The Philosophy in Christianity, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 25 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 99-118.

'Imperialism and Co-existence in Religious Ideology', in Ian Hamnett(ed.), Religious Pluralism and Unbelief: Studies Critical and Comparative (London: Routledge, 1990), 13-28.

'An Irresolvable Dispute?', in Anthony Dyson and John Harris (eds), Experiments on Embryos, Social Ethicsand Policy Series (London and New York: Routledge, 1990), 106-19.

'The Study of Truth and Dialogue in Religion', in Ursula King(ed.), Turning Points in Religious Studies: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Parrinder (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1990; repr. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996), 221-31.

'Truth and the Diversity of Religions', Religious Studies, 26 (1990), 1-18, repr. in RobinGill (ed.), Readings in Modern Theology: Britain and America, SPCK Essential Readings (London: SPCK, 1995), 163-72.

'Evidence for the Virgin Birth', in Gillian Ryeland (ed.), Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Norwich: published by the Canterbury Press Norwich for the Christian Evidence Society, 1991), 53-70.

'Expanding Vision: Pursuing Global Religious Awareness', World Faiths Encounter, no. 1 (Mar. 1992), 3-9.

'Is a Christian State a Contradiction?', in Dan Cohn-Sherbok and David McLellan (eds), Religion in Public Life (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992), 5-16.

'Is God a Person?', in Gisjbert van den Brink, Luco J. van den Brom and Marcel Sarot (eds), Christian Faith and Philosophical Theology: Essays in Honour of Vincent Brummer (Kampen, Netherlands: Kok Pharos Publishing House, 1992), 258-66.

'Religion after the Enlightenment', in Dan Cohn-Sherbok (ed.), Many Mansions: Interfaith and Religious Intolerance (London: Bellew, 1992), 137-48.

Untitled review response [to J. Begbie's untitled review article on A Vision to Pursue, Anvil, 9 (1992), 67-9], Anvil, 9 (1992), 159-60.

'Divine Ineffability', in Arvind Sharma (ed.), God, Truth and Reality: Essays in Honour of John Hick (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1993), 210-20.

'God as a Principle of Cosmological Explanation', in Robert John Russell, Nancey C. Murphy and Chris J. Isham (eds), Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature: Scientific Perspectives on DivineAction (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications, 1993), 247-62.

'God, Timeand the Creation of the Universe', Explorations in Science and Theology (London: RSA, 1993), 61-7.

'The Question of Truth in Religion', Journal of Dharma, 19 (1994), 209-23.

'The Concept of God', in Peter Byrne and Leslie Houlden (eds), Companion Encyclopedia of Theology (London: Routledge, 1995), 342-66.

'Reply' [to Stephen Williams, 'Keith Ward on Religion and Revelation', Scottish Journal of Theology, 48 (1995), 251-8], Scottish Journal of Theology, 48 (1995), 258-62.

'A Classical Portrait of God', in N. T. Wright, Brian Hebblethwaite and Keith Ward, The Changing Face of God, Lincoln Studies in Theology 2 (Lincoln: Lincoln Cathedral Publications, 1996), 30-41.

'Gene Wars', in Russell Stannard (ed.), God for the 21st Century (London: SPCK, 2000), 77-9.

'Religion and the Question of Meaning', in Joseph Runzo and Nancy M. Martin (eds), The Meaning of Life in the World Religions (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2000), 11-30.

'Cosmos and Kenosis', in John Polkinghorne (ed.), The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis (Grand Rapids/London: Eerdmans/SPCK, 2001), 152-66.

'Religion and the Possibility of a Global Ethics', in Joseph Runzo and Nancy M. Martin (eds), Ethics in the World Religions (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2001), 39-62.

'The Temporality of God', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 50 (2001), 153-69; repr. in Eugene Thomas Long (ed.), Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001), 153-69.

'The Importance of Liberal Theology', in Mark D. Chapman (ed.), The Future of Liberal Theology (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002), 39-53.

'Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw: Can There Be a Theology ofNature?', Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology, 7:2 (Mar. 2002), 20-1.

'The Decline and Fall of Reason: From Modernity to Postmodernity', in Ursula King (ed.), Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern Age (London: Cassell, 1998), 15-27.

'Christianity and Evolution: A Case Study', in Marcel Sarot andGisjbert van den Brink (eds), Identity and Change in the Christian Tradition (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999), 91-104.

'God, Time and Eternity', in C. W. du Toit (ed.), Reading the Universe through Science, Religion and Ethics: The Evolving Science and Religion Debate (Pretoria: Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University ofSouth Africa, 1999), 124-39.

'Why God Must Exist', Science and Christian Belief, 11 (1999), 5-13; text of the Gore Lecture, Westminster Abbey, 26 Nov. 1997; also published, with minor changes, as pp.52-65 of God, Faith and the New Millennium.

'Christian Vedanta: An Absurdity or an Opportunity?', in Terrence Merrigan and Jacques Haers (eds), The Myriad Christ: Plurality and theQuest for Unity in Contemporary Christology, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensum 152 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2000), 235-47.

'Comparative Theology: The Heritage of Schleiermacher', in J'annine Jobling and Ian Markham (eds), Theological Liberalism (London: SPCK, 2000), 60-74.

'Convergent Spirituality', in Deborah A. Brown (ed.), Christianity in the 21st Century (New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 2000), 47-71.

'Divine Action in the World of Physics: Response to Nicholas Saunders', Zygon, 35 (2000), 901-6.

'Believing in Miracles', Zygon, 37 (2002), 741-50.

'Cosmology and Religious Ideas about the End of the World', in George F. R. Ellis (ed.), The Far-Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective (Radnor, Pa./Vatican City: Templeton Foundation Press/Pontifical Academyof Sciences, 2002), 235-48.

'Two Forms of Explanation', in Willem B. Drees (ed.), Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion, Science and Value (London: Routledge, 2003), 247-64.

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III. Book reviews

F. H. Cleobury, A Return to Natural Theology (London: James Clarke, 1967), in Scottish Journal of Theology, 21 (1968), 347-9.

Austin Farrer, Faith and Speculation (London: A. and C. Black, 1967), in Scottish Journal of Theology, 21 (1968), 224-5.

Walter Moberly, The Ethics of Punishment (London: Faber and Faber, 1968), in Scottish Journal of Theology, 22 (1969), 220-1.

Helmut Thielecke, Theological Ethics, vol. i(London: A. and C. Black, 1968), in Scottish Journal of Theology, 22 (1969), 99-101.

H. P. Owen, The Christian Knowledge of God (London: Athlone Press, 1970), in Scottish Journal of Theology, 23 (1970), 469-70.

H. R. Schette, Epiphany as History (London:Sheed and Ward, 1969), in Scottish Journal of Theology, 23 (1970), 352.

W. Taylor Stevenson, History as Myth (New York: Seabury Press, 1969), in Scottish Journal of Theology, 23 (1970), 352-3.

Raeburne S. Heimbeck, Theology and Meaning (London: Allen and Unwin, 1969), in Religious Studies, 7 (1971), 279-80.

James Richmond, Theology and Metaphysics (London: SCM Press, 1970), in Theology, 74 (1971), 274-5.

Helmut Thielecke, Theological Ethics, vol.ii: Politics (London: A. and C. Black,1969), in Scottish Journal of Theology, 24 (1971), 353-4.

Dom Illtyd Trethowan, Absolute Value: A Study in Christian Theism (London: Allen and Unwin, 1970), in Theology, 74 (1971), 274.

R. W. Beardsmore, Moral Reasoning (London:Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969), in Religious Studies, 8 (1972), 83-5.

Paul Roubiczek, Ethical Values in the Age of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969), in Scottish Journal of Theology, 25 (1972),237-8.

J. L. Stocks, Morality and Purpose (London:Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969), in Religious Studies, 8 (1972), 82-3.

N. H. G. Robinson, The Groundwork of Christian Ethics (London: Collins, 1971), in Religious Studies, 9 (1973), 108-10.

Brand Blanshard, Reason and Belief (London: Allen and Unwin, 1974), in Theology, 79(1976), 45-6.

James Barr, Fundamentalism (London: SCM Press, 1977), in Theology, 81 (1978), 145-7.

E. L. Mascall, Theology and the Gospel of Christ (London:SPCK, 1977), in Theology, 81 (1978), 214-16.

John J. Shepherd, Experience, Inference and God (London: Macmillan, 1975), in Modern Churchman, n.s., 21:4 (Autumn 1978), 45-6.

Robert Young, Freedom, Responsibility and God (London: Macmillan, 1975), in Modern Churchman, n.s., 21:4 (Autumn 1978), 46-7.

Michael Goulder (ed.), Incarnation and Myth: The Debate Continued (London: SCM Press, 1979), in Theology, 82 (1979), 450-2.

Paul Abrecht and Ninan Kosky (eds.), Before It's Too Late: The Challenge of Nuclear Disarmament (Geneva: World Council of Churches Publications, 1983), in Expository Times, 94 (1983), 381.

Donald B. Kraybill, Facing Nuclear War (Scottdale,Pa.: Herald Press, 1982), in Expository Times, 94 (1983), 381.

Anthony Kenny, Faith and Reason (New York:Columbia University Press, 1983), in Theology, 87 (1984), 373-4.

Helen Oppenheimer, The Hope of Happiness (London: SCM Press, 1983), in Religious Studies, 21 (1985), 110-11.

Hugh Montefiore, The Probability of God (London: SCM Press, 1985), in King's Theological Review, 9 (1986), 29-30.

Thomas W. Ogletree, The Use of the Bible in Christian Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983), in Journal of Theological Studies, n.s., 37 (1986), 295-6.

Frederick Copleston, Religion and the One: Philosophies East and West (London: Search Press, 1982), in Journal of Theological Studies, n.s., 38 (1987),280-1.

Janet Martin Soskice, Metaphor and Religious Language (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985), in King's Theological Review, 10 (1987), 34-5.

Brian Hebblethwaite, The Ocean of Truth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), in New Blackfriars, 69 (1988), 506.

Fergus Kerr, Theology after Wittgenstein (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), in Religious Studies, 24 (1988), 267-9.

Linda Tessier (ed.), Concepts of the Ultimate (London: Macmillan, 1990), in Religious Studies, 27 (1991), 136-7.

Simon Tugwell, Human Immortality and the Redemption of Death (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1990), in New Blackfriars, 72 (1991), 297-8.

Brian Davies, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), in New Blackfriars, 74 (1993), 430.

Richard Swinburne, Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), in New Blackfriars, 74 (1993), 47-9.

William P. Alston, Perceiving God (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991), in Philosophy, 69 (1994), 110-12.

Stephen Bevans, John Oman and his Doctrine of God (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), in Journal of Theological Studies, n.s., 45 (1994), 424-5.

Peter Clarke and Peter Byrne, Religion Defined and Explained (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993), in Religious Studies, 30 (1994), 121-2.

Gordon D. Kaufman, In Face of Mystery: A Constructive Theology (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993), in Journal of Theological Studies, n.s., 45 (1994), 428-9.

Wolfhart Pannenberg, Toward a Theology of Nature: Essays in Science and Faith (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press,1993), in Zygon, 30 (1995), 343-5.

Richard Swinburne, The Christian God (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), in New Blackfriars, 76 (1995), 159-60.

Stephen Ross White, Don Cupitt and the Future of Christian Doctrine (London: SCM Press, 1994), in Epworth Review, 22:2 (May 1995), 167-8.

Nicholas Lash, The Beginning and the End of 'Religion' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1996), in Journal of Theological Studies, n.s., 48 (1997), 753-4.

Christoph Schwšbel (ed.), Trinitarian Theology Today (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1995), in Epworth Review, 24:2 (April 1997), 101-2.

James C. Crabbe (ed.), From Soul to Self (London: Routledge, 1999), in Journal of Theological Studies, n.s., 51 (2000), 423.

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