The Christian faith is often charged with being outmoded and anachronistic. The author argues persuasively that this view is not only uncharitable, but refuted by historical evidence. He demonstrates that Christianity has always been expressed in...

Revelation is a fundamental concept in practically every religion. This book provides a complete analysis of the idea of revelation as found across all five of the great scriptural religions of the world: Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism,...

The author maintains that the denial of the existence of the human soul has devastating effects on our valuation of human beings and human endeavour. He takes current scientific arguments back to their essentials and presents a convincing case...

The "new materialism" argues that science and religious belief are incompatible. This book considers such arguments from cosmology, biology, and sociobiology view points, and shows that modern scientific knowledge does not undermine belief in God,...

Keith Ward retells all the events of the first five books of the Bible in a way that attempts to bring out their spiritual meaning, to show their place in the total story, to explain references and terms which are often puzzling, and to incorporate...

Keith Ward introduces this volume on the world's greatest ever bestseller by suggesting that the Bible is neither a book dictated by God, as some believe, nor just a set of out-dated taboos and politically slanted histories, as those at the opposite...

In this text, Keith Ward looks at what might be called a mainstream Christian worldview, and examines how it could reasonably and non-hypocritically be interpreted given a full aceptance of scientific beliefs, for the beginning of a new millennium.

Considering all the major tenets of the faith from three different Christian points of view, this text covers areas such as sin, salvation, death and the virgin birth,

Offers a reflection on a series of ethical problems in the light of what the world's major faith traditions have to say about them. The author traces the consequences of religious views on morality by considering moral problems such as violence,...