Building Bridges Seminar

David Ford is an Anglican theologian, the Regius Professor of Divinity emeritus at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Selwyn College. He was the founding director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme from 1992 to 2015. Ford also taught for 15 years at the University of Birmingham. His work in the area of Christian theology has been inspired by post-liberal and narrative theology. Ford is one of the founders of scriptural reasoning and has been extensively involved in generating new modes of engagement for interfaith relations in the post-9/11 world. He is the author of The Future of Christian Theology (2011) and Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love (2007), as well as co-editor of The Promise of Scriptural Reasoning (2006) and Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century (2005). In 2013, Ford was named an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to theological scholarship and interfaith relations.