Michael Ramsey Prize - Archbishop to present first award

The prize - an award of £15,000 - was established to encourage the most promising theological writing of the current age, and to identify it for a wide audience. It was inaugurated earlier this year by Dr Williams with sponsorship from the Lambeth Fund and administrative support from SPCK. Five authors have been shortlisted and the judges will make their final choice at a meeting shortly before the award ceremony. Books and judges are listed below.

Notes on the books and further details of the Ramsey Prize can be found by, clicking here

The next Michael Ramsey Prize will be awarded in 2007.

Notes:

The members of the panel of judges are:
Graham James, Bishop of Norwich.
P D James, well known novelist and lay patron of the Prayer Book Society.
Oliver O'Donovan, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology in the University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church Cathedral.
Mary Ann Sieghart, Assistant Editor of The Times.
Jane Williams, visiting lecturer in theology at King's College, London.
Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, a distinguished theologian and noted poet.

The books on the shortlist:

ON HUMAN WORTH
A Christian Vindication of Equality
Duncan B Forrester
SCM - Canterbury Press

FURTHERING HUMANITY
A Theology of Culture
T J Gorringe
Ashgate

A CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY OF PLACE
John Inge
Ashgate

LIVING AND ACTIVE
Scripture in the Economy of Salvation
Telford Work
Eerdmans

THE RESURRECTION OF THE SON OF GOD
Christian Origins and the Question of God
N T Wright
SPCK