My 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.
