Rosemary Radford Ruether
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Rosemary Radford Ruether is a reknnowned feminist scholar and theologian.
Rosemary Radford 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 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.
