David F. Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Self and Salvation: Being Transformed (1999) and co-editor with Ben Quash and Janet Martin Soskice of Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century (2005).

• Introduction: theology as wisdom; 1. Wisdom cries; 2. A wisdom interpretation of scripture; 3. Job!; 4. Job and post-holocaust wisdom; 5. Jesus, the spirit and desire: wisdom Christology; 6. Learning to live in the spirit: tradition and worship; 7. Loving the God of wisdom; 8. Inter-faith wisdom: scriptural reasoning between Jews, Christians and Muslims; 9. Interdisciplinary wisdom: knowledge and formation in the negotiable university; 10. Interpersonal wisdom: L'Arche, learning disability and the Gospel of John; Conclusion: love's wisdom.

'The wisdom tradition in theology has made a comeback, and Ford's book is delightful to read, resplendent with wisdom ancient and new.' The Christian Century