Re-thinking Christianity

by Keith Ward

The Christian faith is often charged with being outmoded and anachronistic. A monolithic institution rooted in the past, many critics have claimed that it lacks the resources to adapt to modern society's needs and advances. In /Rethinking Christianity/, Keith Ward argues persuasively that this view is not only uncharitable, but refuted by historical evidence. Mapping the evolution of six major beliefs, from the Hellenistic restatement to the challenged of evolutionary theory, Ward demonstrates that Christianity has always been expressed in constantly changing ways in response to new knowledge and understandings of the world. Controversial, liberal, and confronting the principal questions facing Christianity today, Ward uses this basis to support the construction of his own ground-breaking a 'systematic theology' for the post-scientific age.

Genres: Christianity, Theology, Religion

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Keith Ward was formerly the Regius Professor of Divinity and Head of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford. A priest of the Church of England and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, he holds Doctor of Divinity degrees from Cambridge and Oxford Universities. He has lectured at the universities of Glasgow, St. Andrew's and Cambridge.

Reviews

[Jose Eduardo · Rating 4 out of 5]

This books was published in 2007, at time before the great transformations that our world suffer. I think, though, that the main purpose of the text is shed light to traditions of Christianity nearer to a thoughtful and liberal viewpoint than to a dogmatic and conservative approach. The author is quite critical in his analysis of how Christianity has changed in its course of history.

As I am a Latin American, I appreciated the final chapter where is described the Theology of Liberation, an important way of think and practice the Christianity. Furthermore, the text is rather academically simple for reading, neither jargon nor linguistic puzzles.

[Nate Bostian · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read for anyone interested in how Christian thought has developed and evolved over the centuries. It shows how the God revealed in Jesus gradually leads us to deeper and broader and more inclusive understandings of that self-revelation.

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

This guy is a good writer