Here, he and award-winning scholar and teacher, Ian Markham, draw us into a humbly-undertaken yet compelling search for answers to the many difficult questions facing faith.
For example:
How can a loving God permit horrendous suffering?
Why does God seem to help some people but not others?
How do we come up with a morally serious yet compassionate theology of sex?
Why does God seem to want us to flatter the divine ego when we worship?
Do animals have a soul?
Will God save aliens in outer space as well as human beings?
Are Satan and demons real?
Is eternal life going to be really boring?
Through the authors' distinctive and highly enjoyable mix of interview and seeker-friendly text, we find an account of faith emerging that is mature, credible and deeply enriching.
KEITH WARD is an English philosopher, theologian, and Anglican priest renowned for his work in comparative theology and the dialogue between science and religion. Educated at the University of Wales and Oxford, with further degrees from Cambridge and Glasgow, he has held numerous distinguished academic posts, including Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; F. D. Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology and later Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion at King's College London; and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. A Fellow of the British Academy, he also served as a canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and later as Gresham Professor of Divinity in London. His international academic engagements include visiting professorships in the United States, membership on the council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and service on several editorial boards and scholarly organizations devoted to inter-religious dialogue.
IAN S. MARKHAM is an Episcopal priest and the dean and president of Virginia Theological Seminary since August 2007. An award-winning scholar and teacher, he previously served at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut as dean and Professor of Theology and Ethics.