Rosemary Radford Ruether
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Rosemary Radford Ruether (b. 1936) is a renowned feminist scholar and theologian, who is married to the political scientist Herman Ruether. They have three children and reside in California. [1]
Ruether was born in 1936 in Georgetown, Texas, to a Catholic mother and Episcopalian father. She has reportedly described her upbringing as free-thinking and humanistic as opposed to oppressive.[2] Ruether's father died when she was 12 and afterwards Ruether and her mother moved to California.
Ruether holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Scripps College (1958), and M.A. in Ancient History (1960) and a Ph.D. in Classics and Patristics (1965) from Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California.
She is currently Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology at the Pacific School of Religion and Graduate Theological Union. Ruether is the author of many books on feminism, the Bible and Christianity, including Sexism and God-Talk, In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women’s Religious Writing (ed. with Rosemary Skinner Keller), and The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
She has for thirty years been considered a pioneer in the area of feminist theology in North America, with a particular focus in modern feminist theology and liberation theology, especially in Palestine and Latin America. She has also been an outspoken critic of war since the Vietnam era and continues this work today.
She is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement. [3]
