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  • Christianity: A Short Introduction (Short Introduction)

    Professor Keith Ward
    Paperback 192 pages
    Publisher: Oneworld
    ISBN: 1851682295

    Christianity: A Short Introduction (Short Introduction) In this new book, renowned theologian Keith Ward offers an original and comprehensive survey of the great diversity of Christian thinking in the modern world. He presents three differing interpretations for over 15 key Christian doctrines, including original sin, the Trinity and eternal life. The result is an introduction not only to Christian beliefs themselves, but also to the similarities and differences in perspective that characterise this global faith. Blending information with theological arguments, this book, also features consideration of major topics such as the contribution made by Christianity to science, culture and ethics, and its role among the other world religions. It should challenge Christians, students and anyone interested in the contemporary spiritual landscape to think creatively about a tradition whose impact has been felt in the most remote areas of the planet.

  • Concepts of God

    Professor Keith Ward
    Paperback 192 pages
    Publisher: Oneworld
    ISBN: 1851680640

    Concepts of GodIn this book, the author considers the doctrine of ultimate reality - God - within five world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity. By closely studying an orthodox writer in each tradition, the author builds up "pictures" of God and uncovers a common core of belief.

  • God, Chance and Necessity

    Professor Keith Ward
    Paperback 200 pages
    Publisher: Oneworld
    ISBN: 1851681167

    God, Chance and Necessity The "new materialism" argues that science and religious belief are incompatible. This book considers such arguments from cosmology, biology, and sociobiology view points, and shows that modern scientific knowledge does not undermine belief in God, but points to the existence of God.

    The "new materialism" argues that science and religious belief are incompatible. This book considers such arguments from cosmology, biology, and sociobiology view points, and shows that modern scientific knowledge does not undermine belief in God, but points to the existence of God.

  • God, Faith and the New Millennium: Future of Christian Belief

    Professor Keith Ward
    Paperback 224 pages
    Publisher: Oneworld
    ISBN: 1851681558

    God, Faith and the New Millennium: Future of Christian BeliefIn this text, Keith Ward looks at what might be called a mainstream Christian worldview, and examines how it could reasonably and non-hypocritically be interpreted given a full aceptance of scientific beliefs, for the beginning of a new millennium. Ward also explores the compatability between the "God of physics", the cause of the universe, and the God of worship and prayer, and the relationship between Christianity and the other world faiths.

  • God: A Guide for the Perplexed

    Professor Keith Ward
    Paperback
    Publisher: Oneworld
    ISBN: 1851683232

    God: A Guide for the Perplexed This prominent theologian adds his contribution to the authority of Scripture debate An impassioned contribution to the debate about the authority of scripture - how we read the Bible, and how, the author believes, a fundamentalist reading is unsustainable. This book will infuriate many and delight others, and will make a valuable contribution to the debate, which we plan to join with voices from many corners. The book works through a series of Bible passages often cited as 'proof texts', and explores how they can be read, and how they are used.

  • In Defence of the Soul

    Professor Keith Ward
    Paperback 176 pages
    Publisher: Oneworld
    ISBN: 1851680403

    In Defence of the Soul Denying the existence of the human soul has devastating effects on our valuation of human beings and human endeavour, maintains the author. He counters such denials, the result of the recent popularization of secular and materialist views of human development, with a detailed examination of philosophical, anthropological and scientific attacks on God and the reality of the human soul. Taking current scientific arguments back to their essentials, Professor Ward presents a convincing case. God is not dead - the watchmaker was never blind.

  • Pascal's Fire

    Professor Keith Ward
    Paperback 224 pages
    Publisher: Oneworld
    ISBN: 1851684468

    Pascal's FireIn the midst of global resurgence of interest in religion, and especially religion's relation to modern scientific knowledge, "Pascal's Fire" offers an erudite and original perspective. Many scientists have written about religion; a few theologians have written about science. However, this is the first contemporary volume in which a theologian takes on science in its own territory. Contrary to Nietzsche's famous assertion, best-selling author Keith Ward argues that God is far from dead. In fact, the rapidly expanding boundaries of scientific discovery, which many attribute to His murder, actually provide persuasive evidence for His existence. By examining how four ground-breaking changes in the history of scientific discourse (the Earth as the center of the universe, the Newtonian revolution, Darwin's Theory of Evolution and quantum physics) affect our conception of God, Ward argues that each individual challenge elicits a new updated concept of God rather than an obituary. Dealing with modern critics, such as Richard Dawkins, Ward claims that the key is not to conceive of God as frequently interventionist, nor as exclusively concerned with the human experience. Rather, His role is as the creator of an exquisite and infinitely beautiful universe that depends upon a number of precise mathematical relationships for its existence. Combining cutting edge science with thought provoking discourses about morality, religion and the meaning of life, Keith Ward provides a fascinating take on the science versus religion debate, offering 'a third way' which is guaranteed to spark debate for years to come.

  • Religion and Community

    Professor Keith Ward
    Paperback 374 pages
    Publisher: Open University Press
    ISBN: 0198752598

    Religion and Community Religion is an important social force, both for good and evil, in the modern world. This book considers the main ways in which religion and society interact, and the ways in which the major world religions need to adapt themselves in the modern world. The author, a Christian theologian, describes the major types of religious community in the world, and proposes a radical vision of the church as a person-affirming, world-transforming society in the emerging global community of many faiths and cultures.

  • Religion and Creation

    Professor Keith Ward
    Paperback 358 pages
    Publisher: Open University Press
    ISBN: 0198263945

    Religion and Creation This is the second book in a trilogy which explores major concepts in the four major scriptural faiths of the world: Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity. Part I dealt with Revelation, whilst this new book focuses on the question of creation. As well as looking at what modern thinkers across the world have had to say on the topic, the book also considers the insights of modern physics, and shows how the universe can be seen as the expression of the mind and heart of God.

  • Religion and Human Nature

    Professor Keith Ward
    Paperback 320 pages
    Publisher: Open University Press
    ISBN: 019826965X

    Religion and Human Nature What do the great world religions say about the soul and its ultimate destiny? This book presents the beliefs of six major traditions about human nature, the way to immortality, and the end of the world. It offers a major philosophical analysis of beliefs in reincarnation and the resurrection of the body. Finally it constructs a Christian interpretation, in the light of scientific knowledge and a global religious world view.

     

  • Religion and Revelation - A Theology of Revelation in the World's Religions

    Professor Keith Ward
    Paperback 358 pages
    Publisher: Open University Press
    ISBN: 0198263759

    Religion and Revelation - A Theology of Revelation in the World's Religions Revelation is a fundamental concept in practically every religion. This important new book, by the leading theologian Professor Keith Ward, provides the only complete analysis of the idea of revelation as found across all five of the great scriptural religions of the world: Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. The author examines the nature, sources, and limits of revelation, and its relevance in the modern world today.

  • The Case for Religion

    Professor Keith Ward
    Hardcover 256 pages (May 1, 2004)
    Publisher: Oneworld
    ISBN: 1851683372

    The Case for Religion In this, his first new book since the best-selling God: A Guide for the Perplexed (Oneworld, 2002), Keith Ward turns his attention to the role - and the validity of religion over the centuries and in the world today. His erudite yet informative and factual narrative outlines the various attempts that have been made throughout history to explain religion, including the anthropological, psychological, sociological and philosophical theories of key thinkers from Immanuel Kant to Sigmund Freud. Adopting a comparative approach, the book covers all the religious traditions from West and East alike, concluding in a compelling manner that not only are the world faiths much more than a series of theoretical perspectives, but that, in the face of discord and violence, religious understanding retains more resonance than ever before within our global community.

  • What the Bible Really Teaches: A Challenge to Fundamentalists

    Professor Keith Ward
    Paperback
    Publisher: SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge)
    ISBN: 0281056803

    What the Bible Really Teaches: A Challenge to Fundamentalists This prominent theologian adds his contribution to the authority of Scripture debate An impassioned contribution to the debate about the authority of scripture - how we read the Bible, and how, the author believes, a fundamentalist reading is unsustainable. This book will infuriate many and delight others, and will make a valuable contribution to the debate, which we plan to join with voices from many corners. The book works through a series of Bible passages often cited as 'proof texts', and explores how they can be read, and how they are used.