Michael Ward (scholar)
Michael Ward (born 6 January 1968[1]) is a British scholar, best known for his book Planet Narnia, in which he argues that The Chronicles of Narnia is structured around the seven heavens.
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Ward was born in Cuckfield, and studied at Regent's Park College, Oxford, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and the University of St Andrews. He was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 2005, joined the Roman Catholic Church in 2012, and he was ordained a priest within the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in June 2018.[1] [2] Ward is currently Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford,[1] and Professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University.[3]
Ward has been an extra in a number of films, including Shadowlands, Hamlet, and The World Is Not Enough.[1]
Bibliography
Books
- C.S. Lewis at Poets’ Corner (edited with Peter S. Williams), Wipf & Stock, 2016. ISBN 978-0-718-89485-6
- The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis (edited with Robert MacSwain), Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-71114-2
- Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-199-73870-0
- Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why it Matters What Christians Believe (edited with Ben Quash), Hendrickson, 2007. ISBN 978-0-281-05843-3
Essays
- "The Tragedy is in the Pity: C.S. Lewis and the Song of the Goat" in Christian Theology and Tragedy (eds. T. Kevin Taylor & Giles Waller), Ashgate, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7546-6940-1
- "The Good Serves the Better and Both the Best: C.S. Lewis on Imagination and Reason in Apologetics" in Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition (ed. Andrew Davison), SCM Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8010-3981-2
- "C.S. Lewis" in The Heart of Faith: Following Christ in the Church of England (ed. Andrew Atherstone), Lutterworth, 2008. ISBN 978-07188-3072-4
- "Christianity and Film" in Christ and Culture in Dialogue (ed. Angus Menuge), Concordia Academic Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-570-04273-0
References
- "Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- "Eight new priests ordained for the Ordinariate". Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- "Michael Ward, Ph.D." Houston Baptist University. Retrieved 4 November 2017.