Public Lecture - 2 Oct '08
Professor Keith Ward

Prof. Keith Ward

Professor Ward’s lecture asked this question and reviewed the evidence from history, philosophy, sociology, and psychology. He argued that, contrary to the views of many commentators, religion has done far more good than harm over the centuries. Without religion, he argued, the human race would be considerably worse off and have little hope for the future.

Professor Ward, an Anglican priest, has degrees from both Cambridge and Oxford. He was Fellow, Dean and Director of Studies in Philosophy and in Theology at Trinity Hall Cambridge, where he was also Lecturer in Divinity and was Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1991 until his retirement in 2004.

He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a member of the Governing Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and a Visiting Professor at Drake University, Iowa, at Claremont Graduate School, California and at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Keith Ward’s most recent books are The Big Questions in Science and Religion and Why There Almost Certainly is a God (both published this year).

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