Hampson, Daphne

(b. 1944)

   Theologian.

   Hampson was born in Croydon, England, and was educated at the Universities of Keele, Oxford, Harvard and Warwick. She has taught at the Universities of Stirling and St Andrews. She is known as one of Britain’s most radical feminist theologians and, like the American Mary daly, describes herself as a ‘post-Christian’. In 1986, a debate was held between Hampson and Rosemary Radford ruether on ‘Is there a place for Feminists in the Christian Church?’ in which she argued that in feminism, ‘Christianity has met a challenge to which it cannot accommodate itself ’. She is the author of Theology and Feminism (1990) and After Christianity (1995). The latter work seeks to find a way to express spirituality beyond Christianity.

   A. Loades, ‘Feminist theology’, in D. Ford (ed.), The Modern Theologians, Vol. 2 (1989).