New Reason to Study at Oxford?

Sean has put me on to Graham Ward's move from Manchester to Oxford to be new Regius Professor of Divinity replacing Marilyn McCord Adams from October 2012. Ward will join Nigel Biggar, Paul Fiddes and George Pattison as the major theological line-up in Oxford. Interestingly Ward, Fiddes and Pattison all have a special interest in the relationship and conversation between literature and theology. Of course as Ward arrives, Bernd Wannenwetsch (who although not a professor was a important reason some theological ethicists chose Oxford) leaves.

Ward is the author of Christ and Culture, The Politics of Discipleship, Cities of God, True Religion, Cultural Transformation and Religion Practice, amongst others, and has been part of the Radical Orthodoxy conversation from the beginning (he was a co-editer with Milbank and Pickstock of the original 1999 text that launched the movement.