Rosemary Radford Ruether Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

#3. 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

#4. 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.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

#5. 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.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

#6. 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.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

#7. 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.

Rosemary Radford Ruether