existentially involved with the differing (and as she believes incompatible) structures of Lutheran and Catholic thought and their resulting spiritualities; the subject of her Harvard doctorate. She is fascinated by Luther's originality, over-turning philosophical presuppositions inherited from the ancient world and setting theology on another course. Hampson finds the Lutheran tradition best able to respond to the dilemma with which the Enlightenment confronts Christians. From the early 1970s she has been fascinated by the thought of Kierkegaard; in particular his Philosophical Fragments as that text which clarified the necessary clash of Christianity with modernity. Her most recent book is Kierkegaard: Exposition and Critique. Thinking Rudolf Bultmann's position the most adequate attempt to mount an apologetic for Christianity in modernity, she judges it however to fail. Among major theologians, it is Schleiermacher (not a Lutheran) to whom Hampson returns once and again in appreciation. Speaking at a 1997 UK conference, Hampson summed up her position thus: Publications Theology and Feminism (Oxford:Basil Blackwell, 1990) After Christianity (London: SCM Press, 1996, and Philadelphia, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997.) Second edition, London: SCM Press, 2002. (Ed.) Swallowing a Fishbone? Feminist Theologians Debate Christianity (London: SPCK, 1996). Christian Contradictions: The Structures of Lutheran and Catholic Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2001, paperback 2004). Kierkegaard: Exposition and Critique (Oxford University Press, April 2013). Recent articles: 'The Sacred, The Feminine and French Feminist Theory', in eds. G. Pollock and V. Turvey Sauron, The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Difference (London and New York, I. B. Tauris, 2007). 'Enlightenment 2008', Caesar: A Journal of Religion and Human Values, vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall 2008). 'That Which Is God', in eds. G. Howie and J. Jobling, Women and the Divine: Touching Transcendence (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). 'Kant and the Present', in ed. P. S. Anderson, New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Resistance and Spiritual Practices, The Feminist Philosophy Collection (New York: Springer, 2009). 'Searching for God?' in eds. M. McGhee and J. Cornwell, Philosophers on God (London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009). 'Post-Christian Thought', in ed. D. Patte, The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 2010). 'Freedom and Human Emancipation', in eds. N. Adams, G. Pattison and G. Ward, Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought, Oxford University Press, forthcoming. See also Mary Daly References External links Conference speech given in 1997 1944 births 20th-century English theologians Academics of the University of