During the 1980s Ann Loades co-presented, with Robert Kee, the Channel 4 programme 7 Days, exploring the ethical issues raised by the newsMy colleague Ann Loades, who has died aged 84, was an outstanding theologian. A pioneer in Christian feminism and in theology and the arts, she was the first female president of the Society for the Study of Theology (SST).She spent most of her academic career at Durham University, where she fought to enlarge theological perspectives in what was still largely a conservative and male-dominated world; in 1995 she became the first woman to be awarded a personal chair at the university. In her view, the traditional practice of theology spent too much time focusing on internal disputes; she examined how religious ideas might be expressed in relation to the arts long before this became a fashionable topic. Mostly this was pursued through discussion of novels and poetry, but ballet also secured a significant mention. An expert on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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