Rosary religion
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The life of 'scholar activist' Rosemary Radford Ruether
Rosemary Radford Ruether embodies the theological vocation well lived. Her scope is awesome, her writing compelling, her commitment to a livable planet unceasing. The impact of her work can be found in so many fields and hearts that she fairly defines the term "scholar activist," teaching and mentoring generations of appreciative colleagues, myself included, by challenging fundamental ways of thinking.
I met Rosemary in the fall of 1972 when we accidentally sat down at the same table in the refectory of Harvard Divinity School. She was a visiting professor in Roman Catholic studies and I was a new student. Our lunch ended prematurely when Rosemary realized that the Women's Caucus was meeting in a nearby small dining room. She picked up her tray and her briefcase that sported a "Question Authority" sticker and joined the group. I finished my lunch in solitude, not quite sure what a women's caucus was. Thanks to Rosemary, I learned that and a lot more.
In her recent autobiography, My American theologian (1936–2022) Rosemary Radford Ruether (2 November 1936 – 21 May 2022) was an American Catholic feminist theologian known for her significant contributions to the fields of feminist theology and ecofeminist theology.[1] Her teaching and her writings helped establish these areas of theology as distinct fields of study; she is recognized as one of the first scholars to bring women's perspectives on Christian theology into mainstream academic discourse.[2][3] Ruether was active in the civil rights movement in the 1960s,[2] and her own work was influenced by liberation and black theology.[4] She taught at Howard University for ten years, and later at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.[2] Over the course of her career, she wrote on a wide range of topics, including antisemitism, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the intersection of feminism and Christianity, and the climate crisis.[5][6] Ruether was an advocate of women's ordination, a movement among Librarian's note: Inclusion of a living person's work as a resource in this online library is based on our appreciation and gratitude for a person's contribution to theological/ecological/spiritual knowledge, understanding, art, and/or advocacy, and is not intended to imply knowledge, approval or endorsement of this web site by the person whose works we have included. Reproduced from Wikipedia.com under a Creative Commons License. Rosemary Radford Ruether was born in 1936 in Georgetown, Texas, to a Roman Catholic mother and Episcopal father. She has reportedly described her upbringing as free-thinking and humanistic as opposed to oppressive.[1] Ruether’s father died when she was 12 and afterwards Ruether and her mother moved to California. She is married to the political scientist Herman Ruether. They have three children and live in California.[2] Ruether holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Scripps College (1958), an M.A. in Ancient History (1960) and a Ph.D. in Classics and Patristics (1965) from Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, Calif
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Rosemary Radford Ruether
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