“Domination of women has provided a key link, both socially and symbolically, to the domination of earth, hence the tendency in patriarchal cultures to link women with earth, matter, and nature, while identifying males with sky, intellect, and transcendent spirit.” — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
“These three creation stories were shaped in the patriarchal, slave-holding world of early urban civilization in the eastern Mediterranean of the second and first… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers. — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
God is not a 'being' removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler; God is the source of… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
“Domination of women has provided a key link, both socially and symbolically, to the domination of earth, hence the tendency in patriarchal cultures to… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem, be at… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against,… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of infallibility itself.… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
