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 RuetherThe 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 RuetherIn 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 RuetherThe Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.
Rosemary Radford RuetherWomen 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.
Rosemary Radford RuetherAn effort to declare the ban on contraception โinfallibleโ 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.
Rosemary Radford Ruether