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Rosemary Radford Ruether | |
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| Born | Rosemary Radford November 2, 1936 Saint Paul, Minnesota, US |
| Died | May 21, 2022 (aged 85) Pomona, California, US |
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Herman Ruether (m. 1957) |
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| Thesis | Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 1965) |
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| Discipline | Theology |
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| Doctoral students | Gina Messina Dysert |
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Rosemary Radford Ruether (2 November 1936 – 21 May 2022) was an American feminist scholar and Roman Catholic 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] She was active in the civil rights movement in the 1960s,[2] and her own work was influenced by liberation and black theologies.[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 Catholics who affirm women's capacity to serve as priests, despite official church prohibition.[7] For decades, Ruether served as a board member and then a member emerita for the pro-choice group Catholics for Choice.[8] Her public stance on these topics was criticized by some leaders in the Roman Catholic Church.
- ^ Ackermann, Denise (2008). "Rosemary Radford Ruether : themes from a feminist liberation story". Scriptura: Journal for Biblical, Theological and Contextual Hermeneutics. 97: 37–46. doi:10.7833/97-0-712. ISSN 2305-445X.
- ^ a b c Parsons, Monique (May 22, 2022). "Rosemary Radford Ruether, a founding mother of feminist theology, has died at age 85". NPR.org. Archived from the original on April 10, 2023. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
- ^ Bouma-Prediger, Steven (1995). The greening of theology: the ecological models of Rosemary Radford Ruether, Joseph Sittler, and Juergen Moltmann. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press. ISBN 978-0-7885-0163-0. OCLC 33105042.
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:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Miller Francisco, Grant D. (1999). "Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology: Rosemary Radford Ruether". people.bu.edu. Archived from the original on January 18, 2023. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
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:2was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hunt, Mary E. (October 15, 2014). "The life of 'scholar activist' Rosemary Radford Ruether". National Catholic Reporter. Archived from the original on June 3, 2023. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
- ^ Barbato, Lauren (2022-05-24). "As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether's Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward". Religion Dispatches. Archived from the original on February 1, 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-01.