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David Frank Ford (born 23 January 1948) is an
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public theologian. He was the Regius Professor of Divinity at the
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, beginning in 1991. He is now an Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity. His research interests include
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,
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theology, Christian theologians and theologies, theology and poetry, the shaping of universities and of the field of theology and religious studies within universities,
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, and interfaith theology and relations. He is the founding director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme and a co-founder of the Society for
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.


Early life and education

For was born on 23 January 1948 in
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. He was raised as an
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in the
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in Dublin. His father died when he was 12 years old and he was raised by his mother, Phyllis Mary Elizabeth Ford. For his undergraduate education, he studied at
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, where he was active in politics, debate and journalism. He was elected a Scholar in classics in 1968. After completing his degree, he interviewed for jobs at
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and
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, but then was offered a scholarship to
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and decided to study theology for a few years before going into business. He earned his bachelor's degree in theology at Cambridge and went on to earn his
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degree at
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; he also did graduate work at the
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. He gained his doctorate at Cambridge, writing his dissertation on
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and biblical narrative under the direction of
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and
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. The result was the book ''Barth and God's Story'' (1981). Ford later received an honorary
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degree from the
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.


Career

From 1976 to 1991 Ford was a lecturer (later senior lecturer) at the University of Birmingham. Living in the
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, his theology was shaped by a multi-faith experience, and he also became involved in a local Anglican church in the
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tradition. As his housemate was involved in renovating derelict houses, he lived in some of those houses and became a house manager for one of them. In the university's theology department, he became close to theologian Daniel W. Hardy and went on to marry Hardy's daughter. In 1991 he moved to Cambridge to become the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is the first professor in this post who is not in the
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. He helped found and chairs the management committee of the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies at Cambridge. He is a member of St John's College, a fellow of Selwyn College, and a foundation member of
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. He is highly regarded for his scholarship, is a sought-after lecturer and preacher, and serves as an advisor to the bishops of the
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. His books have met with wide appeal; his ''The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology in the Twentieth Century'' (
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, 1997), now in its third printing, is the leading textbook on modern Christian theology in the English-speaking world, China and
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. His ''Theology: A Very Short Introduction'' (
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, 1999), part of the
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series, has been translated into many languages, including Chinese,
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, and
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.


Multi-faith and interfaith work

When Ford came to Cambridge in 1991, the theology department focused almost exclusively on Christianity. Ford assisted in the realisation of a development plan which included a new building, a new Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies, new endowed research posts, and the development of the Cambridge Theological Federation (the university's consortium of Anglican,
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, and
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seminaries). The university went on to add two new posts in
Islamic studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...
, a new post in
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, and a new endowed post in theology and
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. A
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institute and institute for
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theology were added to the consortium of seminaries. The Centre for Jewish–Christian Relations was established in 1998, followed by the Centre for the Study of Muslim–Jewish Relations in 2006. Ford was introduced to
interfaith dialogue Interfaith dialogue refers to cooperative, constructive, and positive interaction between people of different religious traditions (i.e. "faiths") and/or spiritual or humanistic beliefs, at both the individual and institutional levels. It is ...
in the early 1990s while on
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at the Center for Theological Inquiry in
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, where his father-in-law, Hardy, director of the centre, introduced him to
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theologian
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. Hardy and Ford participated in meetings of the early "textual reasoning" group founded by Ochs at the
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, reading the
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''
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together with Christian and
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scholars. In 1996 Ford, Hardy and Ochs founded the Society for Scriptural Reasoning; Ford has been an active promoter of
scriptural reasoning Scriptural Reasoning ("SR") is one type of interdisciplinary, interfaith scriptural reading. It is an evolving practice of diverse methodologies in which Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Baháʼís, and members of other faiths, ...
in subsequent papers and lectures. In 2002 Ford became the founding director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme. Among his activities are lectures at international conferences on Muslim–Christian relations. In October 2007 he helped launch a letter by 138 Muslim scholars to 25 Christian leaders, including the Pope, the Orthodox patriarchs, the
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, and the heads of the world alliances of the
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, Methodist,
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and Reformed churches, calling for peace and reconciliation between Christians and Muslims for the survival of the world. The following month, he was one of the signatories on a Christian response seeking Muslim forgiveness. In 2008 the Sternberg Foundation awarded Ford its gold medal for Inter-Faith Relations. In November 2012 he was awarded the Coventry International Prize for Peace and Reconciliation.


Memberships

Ford is active both within the university and in public life. He has been a trustee for the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton since 2007 and a member of the board of advisors for the
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since 2008. Other professional memberships include the American Academy of Religion and the
Society of Biblical Literature The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), founded in 1880 as the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, is an American-based learned society dedicated to the academic study of the Bible and related ancient literature. Its current stated mis ...
. He is an editorial board member of ''
Modern Theology ''Modern Theology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley. It publishes articles, review articles, and book reviews in the area of theology, with an ecumenical editorial policy. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted ...
'', the ''
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'', ''Teaching Theology and Religion'', the ''
Irish Theological Quarterly ''Irish Theological Quarterly'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes systematic, moral, and historical theology as well as sacred scripture. It was established by Walter McDonald and Dr. John Harty in 1906, published by ...
'', and the ''
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''. He is an editorial advisory board member for the ''Current Issues in Theology'' series published by
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. From 2003 to 2008 Ford was an academic member of the World Economic Forum Council of 100 Leaders for West-Islamic World Dialogue. He is an external advisor for the Centre for Christian Studies in Hong Kong (since 2006), a trustee for the Golden Web Foundation, a developer of a global multimedia publishing system with a focus on pre-modern world history, heritage and culture (since 2006), and a consultant for L'Arche Communities, a federation of over 100 communities for people with severe mental disabilities (since 1993). In 2011 he was one of 1,750 signatories to a letter to US President
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urging US intervention in the
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.


Personal

He is married to Deborah Ford, daughter of Daniel W. Hardy. She is an assistant chaplain at
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, part of the Cambridge University Hospital system. They have three children, Rebecca, Rachel and Daniel. He is an Anglican Lay Minister at
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, Cambridge.


Bibliography


Books, monographs

* * * * *
Review by John Webster
''
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'' (2001), 54: 548–559. * (ed. with Mike Higton) * (ed. with C. C. Pecknold; includes chapter "An Inter-Faith Wisdom: Scriptural Reasoning Between Jews, Christians and Muslims") *
Review
in ''Studies in Christian Ethics'' (November 2009) 22:4, 504–506. * * (ed. with Marc Caball, includes chapter "Life, Work, and Reception") *; 3d ed. (ed., with Rachel Muers) pub. 2005 * (ed. with Graham Stanton) * (ed. with Ben Quash and Janet Martin Soskice) * (with
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) 2nd ed. published 2004 * (with Daniel W. Hardy). Published in US as ''Praising and Knowing God'', Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 2005. * * (with Frances M. Young) * (ed. by David Ford, Deborah Ford, Peter Ochs, published in paperback as ''Attracting God's Light: A Parting Theology'')
Review by Michael Barnes
in ''Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits'', 14 January 2011. *
Review by Jason Byassee
in ''The Christian Century'' 128:9 (3 May 2011), 33. * (with Mike Higton and Simeon Zahl)


Book chapters


"Tragedy and Atonement"
in ''Christ, Ethics, and Tragedy: Essays in honour of Donald MacKinnon'', Kenneth Surin, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1989. . *"Third Epoch: The Future of Discourse in Jewish–Christian Relations" (with Peter Ochs), in ''Challenges in Jewish–Christian Relations'', James K. Aitken and Edward Kessler, eds. New York: Paulist Press, 2006, pp. 153–170. *"Developing Scriptural Reasoning Further", in ''Scripture, Reason, and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter: Studying the 'Other', Understanding the 'Self, Basit Bilal Koshul and Steven Kepnes, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 201–219. *"God and Our Public Life: A scriptural wisdom", in ''Liberating Texts? Sacred Scriptures in Public Life'', Sebastian C. H. Kim and Jonathan Draper, eds. London: SPCK, 2008, pp. 29–56.
"Theology"
in ''The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religions'' (2nd edition, 2009), John Hinnells, ed. Routledge, . *"Theology and Religious Studies for a Multifaith and Secular Society", in ''Theology and Religious Studies in Higher Education: Global Perspectives'', Darlene L. Bird and Simon G. Smith, eds. London: Continuum, 2009, pp. 31–43. *"Paul Ricoeur: A Biblical Philosopher on Jesus", in ''Jesus and Philosophy: New Essays'', Paul K. Moser, ed. Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 169–193. *"Foreword" to ''New Perspectives for Evangelical Theology: Engaging God, Scripture, and the World''. Routledge, 2009.
"Foreword"
in ''New Perspectives for Evangelical Theology: Engaging with God, Scripture, and the World'', Tom Greggs, ed. Routledge, 2010. .


Selected articles, papers

* "What Happens in the Eucharist?", ''Scottish Journal of Theology'' 8:3 (1995), 359–81. *"A Messiah for the Third Millennium," ''Modern Theology'' 16 (2000), 75–90.
"The Responsibilities of Universities in a Religious and Secular World"
in ''Studies in Christian Ethics'' 17:1 (April 2044), 22–37, . *"A Wisdom for Anglican Life: Lambeth 1998 to Lambeth 2008 and Beyond", in ''Journal of Anglican Studies'' 4:2 (2006), 137–156. *"An Interfaith Wisdom: Scriptural Reasoning Between Jews, Christians and Muslims", in ''Modern Theology'' 22:3 (July 2006), 345–366. *"Gospel in Context: Among Many Faiths", in ''Pilgrim: Magazine of the Friends of the Church in India'', No. 30 (March–April 2007), 3–7. *"God and Our Public Life: A Scriptural Wisdom", in ''International Journal of Public Theology'' 1:1 (2007), 63–81.
"God’s Power and Human Flourishing: A Biblical Inquiry after Charles Taylor’s ''A Secular Age''", 2008"A Muscat Manifesto: Seeking Interfaith Wisdom"
Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme and Kalam Research & Media, 2009.
"Where is Wise Theological Creativity to be Found? Thoughts on 25 Years of Modern Theology and the Twenty-First Century Prospect"
in ''Modern Theology'' 26:1 (January 2010), 67–75.
"Faith Seeking Wisdom: How My Mind Has Changed"
in ''The Christian Century'' (18 November 2010).


Selected lectures

*"Knowledge, Meaning and the World's Greatest Challenges: Reinventing Cambridge University in the Twenty-first Century", lecture at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 14 February 2003.
"The Qur'an: A New Translation"
speech given at the launch of ''The Qur'an: A New Translation'' at SOAS, University of London, 13 May 2004.
"Gospel in Many Contexts: Among Many Faiths"
at Fulcrum Conference Islington 2006.

lectures at
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, February 2007. * ttp://www.acommonword.com/OmanFordMuscatManifestocircverapr09.pdf "Seeking Muslim, Christian and Jewish Wisdom in the Fifteenth, Twenty-first and Fifty-eighth centuries: A Muscat Manifesto" lecture at the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat, Oman, 20 April 2009.
"What is Required of a Religious Leader Today?"
lecture at the Institute of Shariah Studies, Muscat, Oman, 20 April 2009.
"Jews, Christians and Muslims Meet around their Scriptures: An Inter-Faith Practice for the 21st Century"
The Fourth Pope John Paul II Annual Lecture on Interreligious Understanding, 5 April 2011.


Quotes

*"At the heart of healthy inter-faith engagement is a triple dynamic: going deeper into your own faith, deeper into each other's, and deeper into action for the common good of humanity". *" Few things are likely to be more important for the twenty-first century than wise faith among the world's religious communities. That calls for fuller understanding, better education, and a commitment to the flourishing of our whole planet".


References


External links


Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme


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