Nationality British Role Theologian Name Graham Ward | Occupation Theologian, priest | |
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Born 25 October 1955 (age 68) ( 1955-10-25 ) Books Cities of God, The politics of discipleship, Christ and culture, Barth - Derrida and the L, Cultural Transformation and Relig Similar People John Milbank, George Pattison, Michel de Certeau, Edith Wyschogrod | ||
Tradition or movement Postmodern theology Education University of Cambridge | ||
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Graham Ward (born 25 October 1955) has been Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford since 2012. He is a priest of the Church of England and was formerly the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Philosophical Theology and Ethics and the Head of the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester. Previous to that he was the Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics (1998–2009) and Senior Fellow in Religion and Gender (1997–98) at the university.
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Prior to this he was, successively, a chaplain and fellow at Exeter College, Oxford, a part-time lecturer at the University of Birmingham and the Dean and Director of Studies for Theology at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1990 and priest in 1991, having originally studied English and French at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and then studied theology at Selwyn College while training for ordination at Westcott House.
Ward has engaged in different fields of theology (especially postmodern theology and other disciplines such as philosophy, psychoanalysis, gender studies and Queer Theory. He has written on the theology of language, postmodernism, cultural analysis and christology. His contemporary research focuses on Christian social ethics, political theory and cultural hermeneutics. He is editor of three book series: Radical Orthodoxy (Routledge), Christian Theology in Context (OUP) and Illuminations: Religion & Theory (Blackwell).