Keith Ward

I studied music and philosophy at the University of Wales, Cardiff (as it then was). I became a University Lecturer in Philosophy at Glasgow University, then at St. Andrews, and then at King's College, London University. While at King's, I was ordained in the Church of England. After that, I was, one after the other, Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, Prof. at Heythrop College, London, and Prof. at Roehampton University, London. I retired at the age of 81. So I have always worked as an academic, and worked away at my own philosophy of Personal Idealism - the view that Mind is the ultimate reality, and the physical universe is the expression of Mind, as it creates a universe which generates finite persons whose destiny is to achieve personal communion with Ultimate Mind. I developed a Christian version of Idealism, which sees Jesus as an expression of the Cosmic Word or Reason of Ultimate Mind, who leads others to union with that Mind.