Graham Ward (theologian)

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Graham Ward (born 1955) is Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester, England. He engages in different fields of Theology (esp. Postmodern Theology), and other disciplines like 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).

Books and edited volumes

  • Barth, Derrida and the language of theology (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
  • Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory (Macmillan, 1996, 2nd edition 2000)
  • (Edited) The Postmodern God: a Theological Reader (Blackwell, 1997)
  • (Edited) The Certeau Reader (2000)
  • (Edited, with John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock) Radical Orthodoxy: a New Theology (Routledge, 1998)
  • Cities of God (Routledge, 2000)
  • True Religion (Blackwell, 2002)
  • (Edited) The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology (Blackwell, 2004)
  • Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
  • Christ and Culture (Blackwell, 2005)
  • (Edited, with Michael Hoelzl) Religion and Political Thought (Continuum, 2006)