Keith Ward Biography
Keith Ward is a British Anglican priest, philosopher, and theologian. Ward is also a fellow of the British Academy and a priest of the Church of England.
Keith Ward Age
Ward was born John Stephen Keith Ward on 22 August 1938. He was born in Hexham, Northumberland, England. He is 80 years old as of 2018.
Keith Ward Family
He is the son of John Ward, a director, and Evelyn Simpson Ward. No information on his siblings is revealed to the public.
Keith Ward Wife
He is married to Marian Trotman, a teacher. The got married on June 22, 1963.
Keith Ward Children
He has two children; Fiona Caroline and Alun James Kendall.
Keith Ward Educational Background
Ward graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wales in 1962. From 1964 to 1969, he was a lecturer in logic at the University of Glasgow. He also earned a Bachelor of Letters degree from Linacre College, Oxford, in 1968. He was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews from 1969 to 1971.
From 1971 to 1975 he was a lecturer in philosophy of religion at the University of London. In 1992, Ward was a visiting professor at the Claremont Graduate University in California.
He also has MA and DD degrees from both Cambridge and Oxford universities, and an honorary DD from the University of Glasgow.
Keith Ward Beliefs
Ward mainly focuses on the dialogue between religious traditions. This led him to be joint president of the World Congress of Faiths from 1992 to 2001. He also wrote a book on the relationship between science and religion. As an advocate of theistic evolution, he regards evolution and Christianity as essentially compatible, a belief he has described in his book and which is in contrast to his Oxford colleague Richard Dawkins, a vocal and prominent atheist.
In his 2004 book What the Bible Really Teaches: A Challenge for Fundamentalists, Ward criticized modern-day Christian fundamentalism. He believes fundamentalists interpret the Bible in unplausible ways, choosing which of its passages to emphasize in order to fit pre-existing beliefs. He argues that it is necessary to take the Bible “seriously” but not always “literally” and disagrees with the doctrine of biblical inerrancy, saying it is not found in the Bible, elaborating that.
Keith Ward Death
Keith Ward Books
Ethics and Christianity
Divine Image
By Faith and Reason: The Essential Keith Ward
Comparative Theology: Essays for Keith Ward
The Mystery of Christ: Meditations and Prayers
Love Is His Meaning: Understanding The Teaching Of Jesus
The Christian Idea of God: A Philosophical Foundation for Faith
Christ and the Cosmos: A Reformulation of Trinitarian Doctrine
What Do We Mean By God?: A Little Book of Guidance
Evidence for God: A Case for the Existence of the Spiritual Dimension
The Philosopher and the Gospels
More Than Matter: What Humans Really Are
The God Conclusion
Religion & Human Fulfillment
Divine Action: Examining God’s Role in an Open and Emergent Universe
The Battle for the Soul
Is Christianity a Historical Religion?
Religion and Revelation
God, Chance, and Necessity
Keith Ward Quotes
“True sacrifice is the offering of self so that God can realize the power of creativity, compassion, and friendship in and through your life.”
“Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon.”
“Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale.”
“The ‘physical world’ is a postulated explanatory framework which abstracts certain properties (physical properties) from our experience and thinks of them as objectively existing”
“Our truest freedom, as the philosopher Spinoza said, lies in the acceptance of necessity.”
Keith Ward Website
For more of Ward’s books and sermons, visit his website at keithward.org.uk