ABSTRACT
John Ruskin, writing in the nineteenth century, described theology as ‘a dangerous science’ for women,1 but the late twentieth century saw a paradigm shift in the previously all-male enclaves of academic theology. In his book The Future of Christian Theology, David Ford argues that the theology of the future will be a bold new venture in which the dry demands of academia will yield to a more plurivocal, poetic and creative interweaving of many different voices from many different contexts.2 Maybe, but despite the endeavours of feminist, liberationist and contextual theologians, academic theology remains by and large a conservative, male-dominated enterprise in many Western universities, not to mention seminaries.
