Rosemary Radford Ruether

Rosemary Radford Ruether (born November 2, 1936 in Saint Paul , Minnesota as Rosemary Radford ) is an American theologian .

Life

Ruether studied Roman Catholic theology , philosophy and history and obtained her MA in history in 1960 and her Ph.D. in 1965. at Claremont Graduate School. She taught from 1965 to 1975 at Howard University in Washington, DC and from 1976 to 2002 at Garrett - Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois . From 2002 until her retirement in 2005 she was Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology at the Claremont School of Theology and at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont , California.

Since the early 1960s Ruether was involved in the civil rights movement . In 1984 she signed the A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion campaign . Since 1985 she has been on the board of the American organization Catholics for Choice . She is committed to the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church and is a representative of feminist theology . As an author, she wrote a number of books and received several honorary doctorates .

Ruether is married and has three children. She lives with her family in California .

Fonts (selection)

• The Church Against Itself . New York, 1967, Herder and Herder
• Gregory of Nazianzus . Oxford: 1969, Oxford University Press
• Faith and fratricide: the theological roots of anti-Semitism , New York 1974, Seabury Press, ISBN 978-0-8164-2263-0 .
  • Charity and fratricide. The theological roots of anti-Semitism. Kaiser, Munich 1978. ISBN 3-459-01131-9 .
• New Woman, New Earth: Sexist Ideologies and Human Liberation . The Seabury Press, New York 1975.
  • Women for a new society. Women's movement and human liberation. Pfeiffer, Munich 1979. ISBN 3-7904-0313-X .
• Mary - The Feminine Face of the Church. Westminster Press, Philadelphia 1977.
  • Mary, church in female form . Kaiser, Munich 1980. ISBN 3-459-01286-2 .
• Womanguides: readings toward a feminist theology . Beacon Press 1985.
  • Images of women - images of God. Feminist experiences in texts on the history of religion. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, Gütersloh 1987. ISBN 3-579-00490-5 .
• Women-Church: Theology and Practice of Feminist Liturgical Communities. Harper & Row 1988.
  • Heal our wounds, celebrate our deliverance. Rituals in the Frauenkirche . Kreuz, Stuttgart 1988. ISBN 3-7831-0931-0 .
• Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology , Beacon Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8070-1205-X .
  • Sexism and the Talk of God. Steps to Another Theology. Gütersloh publishing house Mohn, Gütersloh 1985; 2nd edition 1990. ISBN 3-579-00488-3 .
• Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing , Harper-Collins, 1994, ISBN 978-0-06-066967-6 .
  • Gaia & God. An ecofeminist theology of healing the earth. Ed. Exodus, Luzern 1994. ISBN 3-905575-91-4 .
• In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing (together with Rosemary Skinner Keller ), Harper-Collins, 1996, ISBN 0-06-066840-7 .
• Introducing Redemption in Christian Feminism (editor), Continuum (1998) ISBN 1-85075-888-3 .
• The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , Augsburg Fortress, 2002, ISBN 0-8006-3479-9 .
• Mountain Sisters: From Convent To Community In Appalachia , Forward (University Press of Kentucky, 2004)
• Integrating Ecofeminism Globalization and World Religions , Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005, ISBN 0-7425-3529-0 .
• Encyclopedia of Women And Religion in North America , (with Rosemary Skinner Keller), Indiana University Press, 2006.
• Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History , Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2005, University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23146-5 .
• Catholic Does Not Equal the Vatican: A Vision for Progressive Catholicism , New Press, 2008.
• America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation & Imperial Violence , Equinox, 2007, ISBN 1-84553-158-2 .
• Christianity and Social Systems: Historical Constructions and Ethical Challenges , Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.

literature

• Rosemarie Freundorfer: Your kingdom come. The center in Rosemary Radford Ruether's theology. LIT Verlag, Münster 2004.
• Emily Leah Silverman, Whitney Bauman, Dirk Von der Horst (Eds.): Voices of Feminist Liberation: Celebratory Writings in Honor of Rosemary Radford Ruether. Equinox Press, London 2012.

Web links

• Ruether, Rosemary Radford , Claremont School of Theology
• Ruether, Rosemary Radford in The Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Modern Western Theology
• Patricia LaRosa: Finding Aid for Rosemary Radford Ruether Papers, 1954-2002 (PDF file)