Apocalypse Now?: Reflections on Faith in a Time of Terror - Hardcover

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Duncan B. Forrester was ordained as a Presbyter of the Church of South India in 1962, after education at Madras College, St Andrews and the universities of St Andrews, Chicago and Edinburgh. As a Church of Scotland missionary he taught Politics at Madras Christian College for eight years. After a period as Chaplain and Lecturer in Politics and Religious Studies at the University of Sussex, he was appointed in 1978 to the Chair of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology in New College, University of Edinburgh. He was Principal of New College from 1986-1996, and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity from 1996-2000. He established and was first Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues. In session 2000-2001 he held a Personal Chair in Theology and Public Issues in Edinburgh University. He retired in 2001, and the same year he chaired the Theology and Religious Studies Panel for the Research and Assessment Exercise. He has been President of the Society for the Study of Theology and the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Iceland, Glasgow and St Andrews, and in 1999 he was awarded the UK Templeton Award 'for breaking new ground in religion'. His recent publications include The True Church and Morality: Reflections on Ecclesiology and Ethics (WCC, 1997), Christian Justice and Public Policy (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Truthful Action: Explorations in Practical Theology (T. & T. Clark, 2000) and On Human Worth: A Christian Vindication of Equality (SCM Press, 2001).