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“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, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.” PeopleSelfGodBodyHealingBrokenRelationEncountersLiberatingAuthentic Self Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether
“The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive.” HumanityWomenPrinciplesFeministDenyCriticalTheologyDiminishPromotion Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether
“In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.” GenerationsTaughtAccomplishedMore TimeSubordination Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether
“The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.” HardBigsLyingSpeakHard WorkWorkersIdleToilHard Worker Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether
“An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of infallibility itself. . . . A storm of dissent, and even ridicule, directed at infallibility itself would ensue from such a declaration.” EffortEffectsCatholicStormDoctrineDeclarationRidiculeDissentBansInfallibleContraceptionInfallibility Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether
“Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model of relationships continues to be one of domination. They must unite the demands of the women's movement with those of the ecological movement to envision a radical reshaping of the basic socioeconomic relations and the underlying values of this [modern industrial] society.” ValuesModernMovementDemandModelsSolutionsRelationCrisisFundamentalsRadicalLiberationDominationEcologicalEcological Crisis Book:Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism Source: Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism
“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 cumulative patterns of destruction means we have to both learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation.” YearsMeanNextPracticeGenerationsDestructionPatternsSpeedScalesNext GenerationUnlearnCumulative Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether
“In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem, be at the heart of the covenant?' Ellis's answer is that the covenant of Israel with God has been shattered by the creation of a state at the expense of Palestinian life in the land. It can only be renewed by a new ethic and practice of justice that reconcile these two people, who have become irrevocably linked together in the land, either for good or for ill.” PeopleHeartHas BeensTwoBookStatesTodayTogetherAsksJusticeAnswersPracticeLandCreationEthicsInjusticeIllIsraelExpensesPalestinianLinkedDominationDefiningCovenantShatteredReconcileJerusalemJewish Life Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether
“God is not a 'being' removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler; God is the source of being that underlies creation and grounds its nature and future potential for continual transformative renewal in biophilic mutuality.” InspirationalGodChristianReligiousLordCreationSourceFutureTransformationRemoveScholarRulersRulingRenewalGod Within UsSelf Transformation Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether
