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Rosemary Radford Ruether is the Carpenter Emerita Professor of Feminist Theology at Pacific School of Religion and the GTU, as well as the Georgia Harkness Emerita Professor of Applied Theology at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a scholar, teacher, and activist in the Roman Catholic Church, and is well known as a groundbreaking figure in Christian feminist theology. Ruether has published numerous books, including Sexism and God-Talk, In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women’s Religious Writing (ed. with Rosemary Skinner Keller), and The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Her most recent books include Catholic Does Not Equal the Vatican: A Vision for Progressive Catholicism (2008), Many Forms of Madness: A Family's Struggle with Mental Illness (2010), and Women and Redemption: A Theological History, 2nd ed. (2011).

• Catholic Feminists Meet, Strategize by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Theresa Yugar

  By Rosemary Radford Ruether on August 14, 2012 • ( 10 )

  

  During July 8-11, 2012 twenty Catholic feminist leaders met in a retreat center near Baltimore to discuss their concerns and hopes in the light of the recent and ongoing attacks of Catholic bishops on women and especially on feminist work… Read More ›

• The Biblical Vision of Ecojustice By Rosemary Radford Ruether

  By Rosemary Radford Ruether on August 19, 2011 • ( 2 )

  “The earth mourns and withers, the world languishes and withers, the heavens languish together with the earth. The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants, for   they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes,  broken the everlasting covenants. Therefore a curse… Read More ›

• The Vatican’s Spiritual Violence Against Women’s Ordination By Rosemary Radford Ruether

  By Rosemary Radford Ruether on July 22, 2011 • ( 8 )

  The Vatican has adopted what amounts to a “zero tolerance” policy against those Catholics who actively advocate for women’s ordination, particularly against anyone involved in the movement of Roman Catholic Womenpriests which, for the past three years, has ordained thirty-five… Read More ›

• What is Feminism and Why Should We Do it? By Rosemary Radford Ruether

  By Rosemary Radford Ruether on June 24, 2011 • ( 7 )

  

  The following is a guest contribution by Rosemary Radford Ruether, Ph.D., Professor of Feminist Theology at Claremont Graduate University and Claremont School of Theology.  She is a founding mother of the feminist theology movement and author of multiple articles and books including Sexism and God-Talk, Gaia… Read More ›