He transferred his teaching career to the
University of Manchester, where he was Senior Fellow in Religion and Gender (1997–98), then Samuel Ferguson Professor of
Contextual Theology and Ethics (1998–2009).[4]
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In Cities of God (2000), Ward declared his support for same-sex relationships:[2]
... I am a male, Christian theologian who openly advocates same-sex unions, who has friends dying or living with the fear of AIDS, and a family who lives the shadows, embarrassments and sufferings of a genetic disorder. But each of us moves out from where we are placed and place ourselves, and in doing so understands that we are also elsewhere.[9]
Books and edited volumes
Another Kind of Normal: Ethical Life II (Oxford University Press, 2022),
ISBN9780192843012
Theology and Religion: Why It Matters (Polity, 2019),
ISBN9781509529698
Unimaginable: What We Imagine and What We Can't (I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2018)
ISBN9781784537579
How the Light Gets In: Ethical Life I (Oxford University Press, 2016),
ISBN9780199297658
Unbelievable: Why We Believe and Why We Don't (I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2014),
ISBN9781780767352
The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens (SCM Press, 2009),
ISBN9780334043508
^Wisse, Maarten (2010). "Introduction to the Thinking of Graham Ward". In
Boeve, Lieven; Brabant, Christophe (eds.). Between Philosophy and Theology: Contemporary Interpretations of Christianity. Farnham, England: Ashgate. p. 65.
ISBN978-1-4094-8129-4.
^Shortt, Rupert (2005). God's Advocates: Christian Thinkers in Conversation. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 112.
ISBN978-0-8028-3084-5.
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ab"Ward, Rev. Canon Prof. Graham John, (born 25 Oct. 1955), Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford, since 2012; Fellow and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, since 2012" in Who's Who online, accessed 21 October 2023
^Graham Ward (2016). How the Light Gets In: Ethical Life I. p. 313.
ISBN978-0199297658. Attention to Christ and the Spirit delivers us from pantheism, pandeism, and process theology.