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Keith Ward FBA (born 1938) is an English philosopher and theologian. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a priest of the Church of England . He was a canon of Christ Church, Oxford , until 2003.
Ward states his view that the assertion that religion does more harm than good ignores "the available evidence from history, from psychology and sociology, and from philosophy" and suggests that proponents of this view "refuse to investigate the question in a properly rigorous way, and substitute rhetoric for analysis". [1]
God, A Guide for the Perplexed is a non-fiction book by Keith Ward arguing the compatibility between science and religion. In seven chapters Keith Ward takes the reader through the history of mankind's religious thought. He shows how philosophical questions have always been linked with religious questions, and how religion has never been merely ...
The religious journalist Madeleine Bunting produced a scathing review for The Guardian, in which she described the documentary as "a piece of intellectually lazy polemic not worthy of a great scientist". [9] In The Tablet, Keith Ward criticised Dawkins for what he considered to be an indiscriminate and simplistic approach to religion. [10]
Despite believing in gods, Lucretius, like Epicurus, felt that religion was born of fear and ignorance, and that understanding the natural world would free people of its shackles. [14] [15] He was not against religion in and of itself, but against traditional religion which he saw as superstition for teaching that gods interfered with the world ...
Richard Granville Swinburne FBA (/ ˈ s w ɪ n b ɜːr n /; born 26 December 1934) is an English philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford . Over the last 50 years, Swinburne has been a proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God .
Religious Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. It addresses problems of the philosophy of religion in the context of a variety of religious traditions. [1] Issues were published approximately biannually from the journal's founding in 1965 until 1969, and have been quarterly since 1970.
Perceiving God received positive reviews from Terrence W. Tilley in Theological Studies, [3] Brian Hebblethwaite in Modern Theology, [4] the philosopher Keith Ward in Philosophy, [5] Patrick Sherry in Religion, [6] Proudfoot in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, [7] and Matthias Steup in Noûs, [8] and a mixed review from John F. Post in The Journal of Religion. [9]