• Introduction
    with Nicholas Adams and George Pattison
    In Nicholas Adams, George Pattison & Graham Ward (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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    The Oxford handbook of theology and modern European thought (edited book)
    with Nicholas Adams and George Pattison
    Oxford University Press. 2013.
    This handbook charts and explores recurring themes and approaches to this broad and complex topic, particularly with regard to Theology.
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    Why believe? What kinds of things do people believe in? How have they come to believe them? And how does what they believe -- or disbelieve -- shape their lives and the meaning the world has for them? For Graham Ward, who is one of the most innovative writers on contemporary religion, these questions are more than just academic. They go to the heart not only of who but of what we are as human beings. Over the last thirty years, our understandings of mind and consciousness have changed in importa…Read more
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    The Metaphysics of the Body
    In Chris Boesel (ed.), Apophatic Bodies: Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationality, Fordham University Press. pp. 225-250. 2022.
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    Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith (review)
    Studies in Christian Ethics 34 (4): 557-560. 2020.
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    A Question of Sport and Incarnational Theology
    Studies in Christian Ethics 25 (1): 49-64. 2012.
    A Christian theology that is orientated towards understanding incarnation must be interested in the nature of embodiment. As the experience of those involved in sports centres on the body and its attunement to the situation and environment in which it finds itself, so we can compare the states of immersion in the material world in the athlete’s experience and the experience of Christian piety. This essay offers a comparative phenomenology of two forms of embodiment: the athlete’s entry into ‘the…Read more
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    How Hegel became a philosopher: Logos and the economy of logic
    Critical Research on Religion 1 (3): 270-292. 2013.
    Sketching the current division within receptions of Hegel, this article argues for Hegel as a philosophical theologian in a way that is not covered by the recent investigations into Hegel's theological project. Examining in particular the early work on Jesus Christ, the article analyses the changes in this work and how these changes in his understanding of Christology enabled Hegel to appreciate the logic of the Logos. This logic of the Logos is the basis for all his subsequent philosophy. It is…Read more
  • Transcorporeality: the ontological scandal
    Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 80 (3): 235-252. 1998.
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    Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology
    Cambridge University Press. 1995.
    A new and original analysis of the problem of religious language.
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    The secular city and the Christian corpus
    Cultural Values 3 (2): 140-163. 1999.
    Beginning with a discussion of Fritz Lang's ‘Metropolis’, this paper considers the rise of the city from a theological perspective. The ideal of the modern city was, it is argued, a secularised version of the City of God: the city was to be a place where all human desires might be met, a city without a church because the moral perfection of each human being has been fulfilled. The advent of the postmodern city of consumerist desire undermines this secular dream, and opens a space for theologians…Read more
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    Suspending the material: the turn of radical orthodoxy
    with John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock
    In John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock & Graham Ward (eds.), Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, Routledge. pp. 2. 1999.
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    Bodies: The Displaced Body of Jesus Christ
    In John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock & Graham Ward (eds.), Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, Routledge. pp. 163--81. 1999.
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    Between Barth's theology of the Word and Levinas's philosophy of Saying
    In Claire Elise Katz & Lara Trout (eds.), Emmanuel Levinas, Routledge. pp. 3--2. 2005.
  • The schizoid Christ
    In Simon Oliver & John Milbank (eds.), The Radical Orthodoxy Reader, Routledge. 2009.
  • The ontological scandal
    In Simon Oliver & John Milbank (eds.), The Radical Orthodoxy Reader, Routledge. 2009.
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    Outlining the four fundamental concerns of the study of theology--representation, history, ethics and transcendence--this book examines each of these concerns in light of contemporary critical theory. Graham Ward explores the theological themes of the most prominent theorists, outlining their implications for the future of theology and proposing new directions for the future of theological study within a cosmos re-enchanted by postmodernism.
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    The postmodern God: a theological reader (edited book)
    Blackwell. 1997.
    Arguing for a new direction in postmodern theological thinking, away from the liberalism and nihilism of those who name themselves postmodern theologians, the ...
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    How the Light Gets In: Ethical Life I
    Oxford University Press UK. 2016.
    How the Light Gets In: Ethical Life I presents a systematic account of the teachings of the Christian faith to offer a vision, from a human, created, and limited perspective, of the ways all things might be understood from the divine perspective. It explores how Christian doctrine is lived, and the way in which beliefs are not simply cognitive sets of ideas but embodied cultural practices. Christians learn how to understand the contents of their faith, learn the language of the faith, through en…Read more
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    Radical orthodoxy: a new theology (edited book)
    with John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock
    Routledge. 1999.
    Radical Orthodoxy is a new wave of theological thinking that seeks to re-inject the modern world with theology. The group of theologians associated with Radical Orthodoxy are dissatisfied with conteporary theolgical responses to both modernity and postmodernity Radical Orthodoxy is a collection that aims to reclaim the world by situating its concerns and activities within a theological framework. By mapping the new theology against a range of areas where modernity has failed, these essays offer …Read more
  • True Religion
    Wiley-Blackwell. 2002.
    Through reference to plays, poetry, novels, films and painting, this manifesto traces the genealogy of ‘true religion' in the western world and makes six controversial claims about the past, present and future of religion. Traces a transformation in the way religion is understood and performed in the western world. Makes several major claims about the past, present and future of true religion. Uses cultural metaphors as ways into understanding religion. Refers to plays, poetry, novels, paintings…Read more