Keith Ward

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The Reverend Professor (John Stephen) Keith Ward (born 22 August 1938) is a British theologian.

Keith Ward studied at Cardiff, Oxford, and Cambridge, and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England in 1972. He has lectured in philosophy in Glasgow, St Andrews, London, and Cambridge. He was appointed Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1972, F. D. Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology at the University of London in 1982, Professor of History and Philosophy of Religion at King's College London in 1985, and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford in 1991 (retired 2004). From 1992-2001 he was joint president of the World Congress of Faiths (WCF). In 1993-1994 he delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow. He is currently Gresham Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London.

His work has focused on the interface between philosophy and religion, the relationship between science and religion (which as an advocate of theistic evolution he regards as essentially compatible), and the dialogue between religious traditions. His published books include The Concept of God (1977), Rational Theology and the Creativity of God (1982), Holding Fast to God (1982: a critique of Taking Leave of God by the radical theologian Don Cupitt), A Vision to Pursue (1991), Religion and Revelation (1994), Religion and Creation (1996), God, Chance and Necessity (1996), Religion and Human Nature (1998), God, A Guide for the Perplexed (2002), and What the Bible Really Teaches: A Challenge for Fundamentalists (2004).

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