Bøger af Keith Ward

Intended for the high performing manager with the ambition to reach corporate leadership status, this book focuses on both the key value adding activities and disciplines for driving through change and the styles of corporate leaders that attract success.

The only introduction to Christianity which systematically compares its many different faces.From original sin to eternal life, the function of prayer to the role of the church, renowned theologian Keith Ward offers a comprehensive survey of the diversity of Christian thinking in this introduction to the world's largest faith. By presenting three different interpretations for over fifteen key doctrines, he invites anyone interested in the contemporary spiritual landscape to consider the Christian faith from a new and refreshing perspective.

A guide to the Christian faith, which takes a broad sweep from the big bang through the Old Testament to the New and beyond into the history of the faith and modern theological thinking. It explores contemporary strands of Christian thinking and relates them to world faith and non-faith viewpoints.

An introduction to business strategy for management accountants, financial accountants or managers with an accounting orientation, this book places management accounting clearly within the context of strategic management of the business. It shows how management accounting techniques can be integrated into the strategic decision making process.

The 'new materialism' argues that science and religious belief are incompatible. This book aims to debunk such arguments, whose proponents have included figures from Hawkings to Dawkins.

Considers the key role of corporate centres within very large, primarily multi-business organisations. This work presents a corporate configurations model which demonstrates four ways in which corporate centres can add significant value. It also tackles important issues incorporating theoretical and practical dimensions.

Stresses the pivotal relationship between finance and strategy in the marketing process, and demonstrates the techniques and calculations that are necessary to formulate a comprehensive plan. This work also concentrates on how financial input in marketing can create shareholder value.

Does being a Christian in the modern scientific age require intellectual suicide?What future for Christianity in the Third Millennium? In God, Faith and the New Millennium Keith Ward has produced a powerful and upbeat study of Christian belief that tackles questions such as these head on. In what he describes as a summary of his lifes work on Christianity, religion and science, Wards new and positive interpretation presents a Christian faith in harmony with the scientific worldview while remaining true to its traditions. This is a cutting-edge study that will provoke and inspire every Christian and anyone interested in the debate on the role of faith in the modern world. Through his examination of key issues such as Creation, evolution and the divine purpose, Ward demonstrates that there is a natural fit between the scientific worldview and mainstream Christian beliefs Christian faith gives insight into the meaning and purpose of the universe, the physical structure of which modern science has marvellously discovered.

Is there a universal concept of God? Do all the great faiths of the world share a vision of the same supreme reality? In an attempt to answer these questions, keith Ward considers the doctrine of an ultimate reality within five world religions- Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

The author maintains that the denial of the existence of the human soul has devastating effects on our valuation of human beings and human endeavour. He takes current scientific arguments back to their essentials and presents a convincing case countering this denial. 2