Speaker: Keith Ward

Keith Ward, Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, and formerly Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University: The Arthur Peacocke memorial lecture: the future of natural theology. (This lecture will be open to the public, and will take place in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford on the evening of Tuesday 24 June).

After service in the Royal Air Force, Keith Ward taught philosophy at the Universities of Glasgow, St. Andrews, London, and Cambridge. He slowly turned into a theologian, and held the Chair of Moral Theology at London, then the Chair of the History and Philosophy of Religion there, and then, to his astonishment, became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford.

For the past four years has been Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1972, and has been an Non-Stipendiary Mininster ever since, serving in many diverse parishes. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, on the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, Hon. Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, the University of Wales, and Emeritus Student of Christ Church.

His chief interests include comparative theology, Indian religions, the concept of God, liberal theology, religion and science, and music. Major recent books include: God; a Guide for the Perplexed; Christianity: a Guide for the Perplexed; Pascal's Fire; Re-Thinking Christianity; and the 4-volume Comparative Theology (Oxford University Press).

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