David F. Ford

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David Frank Ford (born January 23, 1948) is an Anglican theologian, and the present Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, where he has taught since 1991. He is a Fellow of Selwyn College. His election to the Regius Professorship is notable, as he is the first to hold that position who is not in Anglican orders.

Prior to arriving at Cambridge, he served for 15 years as Lecturer (and later Senior Lecturer) at the University of Birmingham.

For his undergraduate education, he read Classics at the University of Dublin, and Theology at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of St. John's College. His doctorate is also from Cambridge. His graduate education also took him to Yale University, where he studied with Hans Frei, and also to Tübingen University.

He has written chiefly in the area of Christian theology inspired by postliberal theology and narrative theology. His present interests include the interpretation of scripture in the context of interfaith engagement. He has been involved extensively in Scriptural Reasoning. Other interests include the shaping of universities and of the field of theology and religious studies within them, interfaith dialogue, and the relation of faiths to secular cultures, traditions and forces.

[edit] Recent Works

The Modern Theologians. An Introduction to Christian Theology in the Twentieth Century, 3d ed. (ed., with Rachel Muers) (2005)
Scripture and Theology: Reading Texts, Seeking Wisdom (ed., with Graham Stanton) (2003)
Jesus: An Oxford Reader (ed., with Michael Higton) (2001)
Theology. A Very Short Introduction (1999)
Self and Salvation: Being Transformed (1999)