David F Ford
Biographic Data
| ID | 2024693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David F Ford |
| GIVEN NAMES | David F |
| FAMILY NAME | Ford |
| SIGNATURE | FORD D F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Response to Professor Moberly: A New Genre of Commentary
Reading Professor Moberly’s review has had a triple effect. First, I am most grateful for the “Yes” that he gives to my commentary on John’s Gospel, affirming key elements in it. Second, he (together with several other respondents) has led me to reflect further on how it both fits and does not fit within the “biblical commentary” genre. Professor Katherine Sonderegger, in her contribution to a panel on the commentary at the 2022 Society for Bibli…
“Receive the Holy Spirit”
A pivotal moment in the Gospel of John comes when the resurrected Jesus breathes the Spirit into his disciples and sends them as he was sent. The double thrust of Johannine spirituality is desiring Jesus and desiring what he desires: on the one hand, going deeper into relationship with Jesus in trust, understanding and love; and, on the other hand, going deeper into the world now, inspired by how Jesus was sent, with learning, praying, and loving…
The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary
"One of the world's leading Christian theologians invites readers into a fresh, profound encounter with Jesus through the Gospel of John in this verse-by-verse theological commentary"
The Gospel of John and Contemporary Society: Three Major Theological Contributions
The motives for a 20-year project on the Gospel of John, and the approach taken, are described. Then three major contributions to the twenty-first century are explored: first, the essentials of a Christian worldview; second, who Jesus Christ is, and his presence to readers of the Gospel now; and, third, the spirituality of Christian discipleship as one of learning, loving, and praying, encouraging daring improvisation in the Spirit now. The culmi…
Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O'Siadhail's The Five Quintets (I)
Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twentyfirst Century: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets (I)* David F Ford A poet’s work must be the interface embracing all the wonders we’ve amassed with gratitude but also, in the light of what we’ve lost or thought we had surpassed, motifs of wisdom you with second sight will slowly re-begin to interweave. You won’t look back to try to underwrite all loss or hanker for some make-believe, but in the glare of…
Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O'Siadhail's The Five Quintets (II)
Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets (II)* David F Ford ‘Finding’: exploring and praising the mystery While marvelling at your choreography, Stars and quarks beyond our mastery, We still explore to praise your mystery. (xxii) It may be that the most comprehensive issue for worldviews of the twentyfirst century is the theme of the fourth quintet, ‘Finding’, in Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Q…
The future of theology at a public university
In exploring the future of theological reflection at a public university, the Irish Anglican theologian David Ford considers the study of theology in university settings that are multireligious and multi-secular. He discusses the responsibilities of such universities with regard to the religions, and how they can be healthily diverse places with a pluralism of multiple depths. He proposes an understanding of theological reflection as a wisdom-see…
Theology A Very Short Introduction
This is an introduction to the subject of academic theology. Its basic approach is interrogative, raising key questions so as to lead into a range of selected topics such as knowledge community, salvation, God, prayer and evil.
Theology for the third millennium
Theology at its broadest is thinking about questions raised by and about the religions. ‘Theology for the third millennium’ argues that if theology is taken as being concerned with questions within that area, then there is no doubt that, if the human race continues, theology will be at least as common and as necessary in the third as in any previous millennium. In society as a whole, theology's responsibility is not just to contribute to public d…
Scriptural Reasoning and the Legacy of Vatican II: Their Mutual Engagement and Significance
Introduction— Interreligious Reading After Vatican II: Scriptural Reasoning, Comparative Theology and Receptive Ecumenism
The What, How and Who of Humanity Before God: Theological Anthropology and the Bible in the Twenty‐first Century
David Kelsey's Eccentric Existence. A Theological Anthropology is read in the context of the traditions of Christian theology, especially in Europe and North America, and of Kelsey's Yale colleagues. Its theocentric, scriptural and thoughtfully experimental contribution to theological anthropology from the perspectives of creation, consummation and reconciliation is analysed, appreciated and assessed. Implications of Kelsey's identification of th…
Reading texts, seeking wisdom: A Gospel, a system and a poem
Reading texts is fundamental to Christian wisdom-seeking. In this article three very different texts are interpreted for their wisdom. The closing verses of the Gospel of John are a charter for ongoing discipleship inseparable from continuing theological creativity, at the heart of which is Spirit-guided interpretation of Scripture. Kelsey's magisterial experiment in theological anthropology is radically God-centred and shifts the doctrine of cre…
Where Is Wise Theological Creativity to Be Found? Thoughts on 25 Years of Modern Theology and the Twenty‐first Century Prospect
Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation
Negative theology or apophasis - the idea that God is best identified in terms of 'absence', 'otherness', 'difference' - has been influential in modern Christian thought, resonating as it does with secular notions of negation developed in continental philosophy. Apophasis also has a strong intellectual history dating back to the early Church Fathers. Silence and the Word both studies the history of apophasis and examines its relationship with con…
Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love
What is Christian wisdom for living in the twenty-first century? Where is it to be found? How can it be learnt? In the midst of diverse religions and worldviews and the demands and complexities of our world, David Ford explores a Christian way of uniting love of wisdom with wisdom in love. Core elements are the 'discernment of cries', the love of God for God's sake, interpretation of scripture, and the shaping of desire in faith. Case studies dea…
God and Our Public Life: A Scriptural Wisdom
This article recognises both the need for wisdom for the flourishing of public life and the value of the contribution that Christian wisdom, founded on Scripture, has to offer. However, this article also notes that the contemporary world is a complexly religious and secular environment, and hence if Christian wisdom is to realise its potential, there is a need for the creation and nurture of attitudes, groups and institutions within which fruitfu…
An Interfaith Wisdom: Scriptural Reasoning Between Jews, Christians and Muslims
The origins of scriptural reasoning, in which Jews, Christians and Muslims study their scriptures in conversation with each other, are described. Some maxims implicit in its form of Abrahamic collegiality are distilled (including the emphasis on friendship rather than consensus) and its institutional setting is analysed under the headings of House (synagogue, church, mosque), campus (university) and tent (settings where scriptural reasoning is pr…
Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-first Century
This book was first published in 2005. How will the study of theology and the religions in higher education be shaped in the coming century? This book offers several different perspectives on this field of study with suggestions for a future in which theology and religious studies are pursued together. There are examples of the interplay of theology and religious studies with reference to a range of topics: God, love, scripture, worship, argument…
A Messiah for the Third Millennium
The first part explores briefly the significance of Jesus over two millennia. It then examines the relations of Christians and Jews, with special concentration on a theological alternative to the Christian supersessionism, which sees the church as superseding the Jews as the people of God. This is done through a plain sense of pragmatic reading of the Letter to the Ephesians in dialogue with the approach to scripture advocated by Peter Ochs. Fina…
News and Short Contributions
JFA announces a new award for outstanding artwork and photographs published in the Journal. The award will be called the JFA Award for Graphic Excellence. The winner will receive a certificate identifying the artwork, the artist's name, and the title and author of the article in which it appeared. The winner will be selected by JFA art director David Ford, assisted by the editors, and all decisions will be final. Our main interest is in line draw…
The Nature of Clarity in Archaeological Line Drawings
No one questions the importance of effective communication in reporting archaeological findings. Writing is one means of communication, but presenting graphic material (photographs and line drawings) is another. An ambiguous sentence can often distort the truth, and a poorly wrought map or chart can do the same. Relying mainly maps for his examples, the author points out some common pitfalls in graphic presentation, and develops a generic princip…
Hans Frei and the Future of Theology
Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation
Negative theology or apophasis - the idea that God is best identified in terms of 'absence', 'otherness', 'difference' - has been influential in modern Christian thought, resonating as it does with secular notions of negation developed in continental philosophy. Apophasis also has a strong intellectual history dating back to the early Church Fathers. Silence and the Word both studies the history of apophasis and examines its relationship with con…
Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-first Century
This book was first published in 2005. How will the study of theology and the religions in higher education be shaped in the coming century? This book offers several different perspectives on this field of study with suggestions for a future in which theology and religious studies are pursued together. There are examples of the interplay of theology and religious studies with reference to a range of topics: God, love, scripture, worship, argument…
The future of theology at a public university
In exploring the future of theological reflection at a public university, the Irish Anglican theologian David Ford considers the study of theology in university settings that are multireligious and multi-secular. He discusses the responsibilities of such universities with regard to the religions, and how they can be healthily diverse places with a pluralism of multiple depths. He proposes an understanding of theological reflection as a wisdom-see…
Hans Frei and the Future of Theology
The Nature of Clarity in Archaeological Line Drawings
No one questions the importance of effective communication in reporting archaeological findings. Writing is one means of communication, but presenting graphic material (photographs and line drawings) is another. An ambiguous sentence can often distort the truth, and a poorly wrought map or chart can do the same. Relying mainly maps for his examples, the author points out some common pitfalls in graphic presentation, and develops a generic princip…
News and Short Contributions
JFA announces a new award for outstanding artwork and photographs published in the Journal. The award will be called the JFA Award for Graphic Excellence. The winner will receive a certificate identifying the artwork, the artist's name, and the title and author of the article in which it appeared. The winner will be selected by JFA art director David Ford, assisted by the editors, and all decisions will be final. Our main interest is in line draw…
A Messiah for the Third Millennium
The first part explores briefly the significance of Jesus over two millennia. It then examines the relations of Christians and Jews, with special concentration on a theological alternative to the Christian supersessionism, which sees the church as superseding the Jews as the people of God. This is done through a plain sense of pragmatic reading of the Letter to the Ephesians in dialogue with the approach to scripture advocated by Peter Ochs. Fina…
Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-first Century
This book was first published in 2005. How will the study of theology and the religions in higher education be shaped in the coming century? This book offers several different perspectives on this field of study with suggestions for a future in which theology and religious studies are pursued together. There are examples of the interplay of theology and religious studies with reference to a range of topics: God, love, scripture, worship, argument…
An Interfaith Wisdom: Scriptural Reasoning Between Jews, Christians and Muslims
The origins of scriptural reasoning, in which Jews, Christians and Muslims study their scriptures in conversation with each other, are described. Some maxims implicit in its form of Abrahamic collegiality are distilled (including the emphasis on friendship rather than consensus) and its institutional setting is analysed under the headings of House (synagogue, church, mosque), campus (university) and tent (settings where scriptural reasoning is pr…
Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love
What is Christian wisdom for living in the twenty-first century? Where is it to be found? How can it be learnt? In the midst of diverse religions and worldviews and the demands and complexities of our world, David Ford explores a Christian way of uniting love of wisdom with wisdom in love. Core elements are the 'discernment of cries', the love of God for God's sake, interpretation of scripture, and the shaping of desire in faith. Case studies dea…
God and Our Public Life: A Scriptural Wisdom
This article recognises both the need for wisdom for the flourishing of public life and the value of the contribution that Christian wisdom, founded on Scripture, has to offer. However, this article also notes that the contemporary world is a complexly religious and secular environment, and hence if Christian wisdom is to realise its potential, there is a need for the creation and nurture of attitudes, groups and institutions within which fruitfu…
Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation
Negative theology or apophasis - the idea that God is best identified in terms of 'absence', 'otherness', 'difference' - has been influential in modern Christian thought, resonating as it does with secular notions of negation developed in continental philosophy. Apophasis also has a strong intellectual history dating back to the early Church Fathers. Silence and the Word both studies the history of apophasis and examines its relationship with con…
Where Is Wise Theological Creativity to Be Found? Thoughts on 25 Years of Modern Theology and the Twenty‐first Century Prospect
The What, How and Who of Humanity Before God: Theological Anthropology and the Bible in the Twenty‐first Century
David Kelsey's Eccentric Existence. A Theological Anthropology is read in the context of the traditions of Christian theology, especially in Europe and North America, and of Kelsey's Yale colleagues. Its theocentric, scriptural and thoughtfully experimental contribution to theological anthropology from the perspectives of creation, consummation and reconciliation is analysed, appreciated and assessed. Implications of Kelsey's identification of th…
Reading texts, seeking wisdom: A Gospel, a system and a poem
Reading texts is fundamental to Christian wisdom-seeking. In this article three very different texts are interpreted for their wisdom. The closing verses of the Gospel of John are a charter for ongoing discipleship inseparable from continuing theological creativity, at the heart of which is Spirit-guided interpretation of Scripture. Kelsey's magisterial experiment in theological anthropology is radically God-centred and shifts the doctrine of cre…
Theology A Very Short Introduction
This is an introduction to the subject of academic theology. Its basic approach is interrogative, raising key questions so as to lead into a range of selected topics such as knowledge community, salvation, God, prayer and evil.
Theology for the third millennium
Theology at its broadest is thinking about questions raised by and about the religions. ‘Theology for the third millennium’ argues that if theology is taken as being concerned with questions within that area, then there is no doubt that, if the human race continues, theology will be at least as common and as necessary in the third as in any previous millennium. In society as a whole, theology's responsibility is not just to contribute to public d…
Scriptural Reasoning and the Legacy of Vatican II: Their Mutual Engagement and Significance
Introduction— Interreligious Reading After Vatican II: Scriptural Reasoning, Comparative Theology and Receptive Ecumenism
The future of theology at a public university
In exploring the future of theological reflection at a public university, the Irish Anglican theologian David Ford considers the study of theology in university settings that are multireligious and multi-secular. He discusses the responsibilities of such universities with regard to the religions, and how they can be healthily diverse places with a pluralism of multiple depths. He proposes an understanding of theological reflection as a wisdom-see…
Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O'Siadhail's The Five Quintets (I)
Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twentyfirst Century: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets (I)* David F Ford A poet’s work must be the interface embracing all the wonders we’ve amassed with gratitude but also, in the light of what we’ve lost or thought we had surpassed, motifs of wisdom you with second sight will slowly re-begin to interweave. You won’t look back to try to underwrite all loss or hanker for some make-believe, but in the glare of…
Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O'Siadhail's The Five Quintets (II)
Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets (II)* David F Ford ‘Finding’: exploring and praising the mystery While marvelling at your choreography, Stars and quarks beyond our mastery, We still explore to praise your mystery. (xxii) It may be that the most comprehensive issue for worldviews of the twentyfirst century is the theme of the fourth quintet, ‘Finding’, in Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Q…
Response to Professor Moberly: A New Genre of Commentary
Reading Professor Moberly’s review has had a triple effect. First, I am most grateful for the “Yes” that he gives to my commentary on John’s Gospel, affirming key elements in it. Second, he (together with several other respondents) has led me to reflect further on how it both fits and does not fit within the “biblical commentary” genre. Professor Katherine Sonderegger, in her contribution to a panel on the commentary at the 2022 Society for Bibli…
“Receive the Holy Spirit”
A pivotal moment in the Gospel of John comes when the resurrected Jesus breathes the Spirit into his disciples and sends them as he was sent. The double thrust of Johannine spirituality is desiring Jesus and desiring what he desires: on the one hand, going deeper into relationship with Jesus in trust, understanding and love; and, on the other hand, going deeper into the world now, inspired by how Jesus was sent, with learning, praying, and loving…
The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary
"One of the world's leading Christian theologians invites readers into a fresh, profound encounter with Jesus through the Gospel of John in this verse-by-verse theological commentary"
The Gospel of John and Contemporary Society: Three Major Theological Contributions
The motives for a 20-year project on the Gospel of John, and the approach taken, are described. Then three major contributions to the twenty-first century are explored: first, the essentials of a Christian worldview; second, who Jesus Christ is, and his presence to readers of the Gospel now; and, third, the spirituality of Christian discipleship as one of learning, loving, and praying, encouraging daring improvisation in the Spirit now. The culmi…
Philosophy (20 works) · Theology (17 works) · Art (11 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (9 works) · Religious studies (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)