Keith Ward

Regius Professor of Divinity, Christ Church, Oxford

Religion and Revelation: A Theology of Revelation in the World’s Religions

In his series of lectures, Ward provides a detailed investigation of the concept of revelation, examining its nature, sources, and limitations in five major religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. He examines the nature of theology and the comparative method, moving to the nature of religion and its early historical manifestations. He develops the distinctively Christian idea of revelation as divine self-expression in history, concluding with a discussion on a new theology of revelation for the future.

Biography

Keith Ward was born on 22 August 1938 in Hexham, England. A philosopher and theologian, he has greatly contributed to comparative theology and the relationship between science and religion. Lecturer at St Andrews in 1969, he taught at the University of London before becoming Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1975. Appointed F.D. Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology at the University of London in 1982, he moved to King’s College London in 1985, and Oxford in 1991, achieving Regius Professor of Divinity in 2004. He has since held positions at Gresham, Heythrop, and Roehampton, retiring in 2021.

Council Member of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, he is on the editorial boards of Religious Studies and the Journal of Contemporary Religion, among others. Notable works include Fifty Key Words in Philosophy (1968), Ethics and Christianity (1970), The Divine Image (1976), Rational Theology and the Creativity of God (1984), Divine Action (1990), Comparative Theology (1994–2000), The Case for Religion (2004), The Big Questions in Science and Religion (2008), and Confessions of a Recovering Fundamentalist (2020).

Published/Archival Resources

Published as Religion and Revelation.