Keith Ward

• Keith Ward was an English philosopher and theologian
• Keith Ward was a fellow of the British Academy
• Ward was a priest of the Church of England
• Ward's main topics: comparative theology, and the relationship between science and religion
• Keith Ward questions:

  • Why would God select some to be recipients of miracles and not others?
  • Why should some humans have the power to perform miracles and not others?
• Where God brings about a miracle, it has universal significance
• Miracles disclose something about God's intentions for the universe
• Jesus's resurrection is a sign because it discloses God's intentions that human life will have ultimate fulfilment after death
• Keith Ward is a realist
• When a miracle is brought about by the agency of human beings (such as Catholic saints), this is because the power to bring about miracles is always available to human beings
• The power to perform a miracle is:

  • Natural
  • Supernatural
• Not interventionist- 'God is not tinkering with his own creation'