18 Facts About Daphne Hampson

Margaret Daphne Hampson was born on 1944 and is an English theologian.

Daphne Hampson was born on 15 June 1944 in Croydon, England.

Daphne Hampson was the first 'iconoclast' in the BBC Radio 4 series of that name.

At St Andrews, Daphne Hampson set up one of the first two courses on 'Feminism and Theology' in the UK.

Daphne Hampson has since lived in Oxford, where she is an Associate of the Faculty of Theology, undertaking some teaching and continuing to publish.

In 2005 Daphne Hampson was a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and is a Life Member.

Daphne Hampson is unusual in being both schooled in Continental thought, thus having a post-Kantian, post-Freudian and feminist ideological critique of Christianity, and a marked British empirical streak, holding that theology should be grounded in human religious experience.

Daphne Hampson is adamant that Christian claims to a unique revelation in Christ are incompatible with what, since the eighteenth century Enlightenment, has been known to be the nature of reality.

Daphne Hampson has long taken such an epistemological position for granted.

Daphne Hampson further finds problematic the idea of a transcendent God; again the corollary of a belief in particular revelation.

Daphne Hampson would have theology become like any other discipline; drawing on the past when that remains appropriate, taking novel directions when the progress of human knowledge or ethics demands this.

The more challenging aspect of Daphne Hampson's thought has been to consider, how then 'God' had best be conceptualised.

Daphne Hampson has always been forthright as to her belief that prayer, or focused thought for another, is effective.

Daphne Hampson holds that God had best be understood as spirit, intimately interconnected with what we are.

Academically, Daphne Hampson has always been impressed by the power of Lutheran thought, little known or appreciated in the British context.

Daphne Hampson has found herself over many years existentially involved with the differing structures of Lutheran and Catholic thought and their resulting spiritualities; the subject of her Harvard doctorate.

Daphne Hampson is fascinated by Luther's originality, over-turning philosophical presuppositions inherited from the ancient world and setting theology on another course.

Daphne Hampson finds the Lutheran tradition best able to respond to the dilemma with which the Enlightenment confronts Christians.