True Religion

by Graham Ward

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.

Genres: Theology

179 pages, Hardcover

First published January 7, 2002

About the author

Graham Ward is an English theologian and Anglican priest who has been Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford since 2012. He is a priest of the Church of England and was formerly the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Philosophical Theology and Ethics and the Head of the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester. Previous to that he was the Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics and Senior Fellow in Religion and Gender at the university.

Reviews

[Andrew]

I have been enjoying Ward's works so far; this just happens to be my least favorite at the time. While you can read in his intro and the back jacket how he aims to show the progression of the concept of a "true religion" through history, what this book really does is analyze particular events/ideas and nothing exactly linear at all. The last chapter, though, was pretty excellent.