Institute for Thealogy & Deasophy

Rosemary Radford Ruether
PhD
Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University
Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology, emerita
The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
E-mail: rruether@psr.edu


Rosemary Radford Ruether is a Catholic feminist theologian presently teaching at the Claremont Graduate University and Claremont School of theology in Claremont, California. She held the Carpenter Chair of Feminist Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California from 2000-2005. From 1976-2001 she was the Georgia Harkness Professor of Applied Theology at the Garrett Theological Seminary and a member of the Graduate Faculty of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She teaches courses on Feminist Theologies in North America and in the two-thirds world, on ecofeminism and on the relation of the history of Christian theology to social justice issues, including sexism, racism, poverty, militarism, ecology, and interfaith relations.

Rosemary Radford Ruether holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Scripps College (l958), an M.A. in Ancient History (l960) and a Ph.D. in Classics and Patristics (l965) from Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California. She holds twelve honorary doctorates, the most recent from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (l994) and Uppsala, Sweden (2000).

Rosemary Radford Ruether is the author or editor of forty-five books. Among these are Sexism and God-talk: Toward a Feminist Theology (l983, l993); Woman-Church: Theology and Practice of Feminist Liturgical Communities (l986); Contemporary Catholicism: Crises and Challenges (l987); The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (l989, 2002, 2nd edition), Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing (l992), Women Healing Earth: Third World Women on Feminism, Religion and Ecology (l996), Gender and Redemption: A Theological History (l998), Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family (Beacon Press, 2000), Feminism and the Future of the Planet: A Buddhist-Christian Conversation (Continuum, 2001) and Gender, Ethnicity and Religion (Fortress 2002); Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization and World Religions (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), Goddesses and the Divine Feminine (University of California Press, March, 2005) and Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, with Rosemary Keller (Indiana University Press, Spring, 2006). She edited with Marion Grau, Interpreting the Post-Modern: Responses to Radical Orthodoxy (T&T Clark, 2006). Two of her books appeared in 2007, Feminist Theologies: Legacy and Prospect (Fortress Press) and America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation and Imperial Violence (Equinox Press) In 2008 she published two books, Christianity and Social Systems (Rowman and Littlefield) and Catholic does not equal the Vatican: A Vision of Progressive Catholicism (The New Press). Dr. Ruether is a contributor to 140 book symposia and writes regularly for The National Catholic Reporter. She is a board member of the Friends of Sabeel (Jerusalem) and Catholics for a Free Choice (Washington, D.C.). She has lectured widely at university and church conferences in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.