Rosemary Radford RuetherRecensioni

This book is about to struggle that non Quaker women had to establish themselves as preachers and religious leaders.

Women in contemporary churches are suffering from linguistic deprivation and eucharistic famine. No longer nurture their souls and alienating words that ignore systematically deny their existence.

The authors discuss religious women as charismatic leaders, holy women, dissenters, martyrs, renewers and reformers, as well as theological images of the feminine. The studies are historical and descriptive both from the early churches to the present day.

The author demonstrates a surprising relationship between Christianity and social change,

This is based on Biblical tradition but open to enrichment from other sources. The author makes clear that we can not simply appropriate past sources but do some dreaming and creation of our own.

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Wonderful work, just great, clear and learned writing. I think this is the most readable, and thus memorable, among the books on liberation theology that I've read. I am halfway through it, I like the chapters about Christian anti-Semitism, the one about celibacy and sexuality, the one about Christian apocalypticism, and how it contrasts with the intellectual and social ferment among young people during the late 60s. In short, I like most of what I've read. The chapter on Christian anti-Semitism is especially interesting because it focuses on the plight of the Jew, it is written from the perspective of the Jew who had to contend during the modern period with the anti-Semitism that existing socialist projects inherited from centuries of Christian anti-Semitism. It is not 'philo-Semitic' though as it is critical of the Zionist project in Israel. The comparison between Christian religio-political intolerance during the early period of its adoption by the Roman Empire and the more democratic methods of Jewish religious life and organization is also illuminating.

Liberation theology is my kind of theology. It is the kind of engaged religious thinking that makes me still view religions as being not that bad sometimes. Ruether's work is important, not just in terms of intellectual religious history and Biblical studies, but also as a part of a curriculum in social ethics and progressive politics.

These essays attempt to fill a growing need for a more exact idea of the role of religion, specifically in the Judaeo-Christian tradition, in shaping the traditional cultural images that have degraded and suppressed women.

a tour de force of christian theology (and the sexism it contains) from its jewish origins to karl barth. not only does ruether diagnose the oppressive qualities of christianity astutely, but she also recommends theological and pastoral changes that the church needs to make in order to reconnect woman with her authentic self (and to understand the authentic nature of god).

Having a child with any type of mental illness is challenging, but having a child diagnosed with schizophrenia is devastating. Thoughts of homelessness and endless hospital stays come to the mind, when a diagnosis such as this enters a family’s life. This book is about an educator and her struggle to find stability in her schizophrenic son’s life. Everyday there is a battle to find normalcy, support, and understanding for him. His name is David and he is one of many people that battle this tortuous disease. This book describes the many situations that David experienced throughout his time in various group homes, mental health facilities, and hospitals. It provides poems that shows how schizophrenia takes the mind of a talented writer and destroys it bit by bit. The author writes with brutal honesty about her struggles to communicate with both her son and his group home providers. A great deal of history is given throughout the book that discusses the treatment of the mentally ill and past remedies that were given.

This book was a very intense read. It was both informative and educational. As a parent to a child who was recently diagnosed as a schizophrenic, I find this book very helpful. In our short journey we have gone from possibly autistic, to severely bi-polar, to where we are now; which is schizophrenic. At nine years of age I never thought I would have a child experience something so unique. Reading books like this has allowed me to cope and gather the necessary information that I am going to need in the future. The author painted a realistic picture for me and allowed me to experience her heartache a little early. By doing so I was able to prepare myself and educate myself on some of the resources I may need in the future. Although there is much sadness in this book, there is also a lot of hope. David and his mother share a special bond with one another that cannot be easily broken and today he is faring well. I highly recommend this book to those that have loved ones that are struggling with this unique disease.

I often hear people say, "Marriage has been [XYZ] for thousands of years and now they want to change it!"

I suspect that those people have never read a book on the history of marriage.

This book is a good place to start although it might be too academic for some people. (But, if you have a college degree, you've surely read more difficult books.)

Die Ursachen und Folgen des religiös-christlichen Antisemitismus von den Zeiten der Kirchenväter bis zur Shoa.

This short "manifesto-style" book is a call for a more authentic experience of church in the Catholic tradition. The author - a scholar, activist, and feminist theologian - compiles a half-dozen essays that tell her life story, explore the experiences of women in Catholicism, critique the inconsistencies of the post-Vatican II papacy, and set forth an alternate vision to the Vatican's paradigm. The book is uneven and a lot of the essays could and should be explicated into a longer work, but this book serves well as an introduction to progressive Catholicism.

"Seminal" is a good word here. The book is old, the thoughts now well known but still... if you are new to feminist theology, start here.

Seminal, or ovoidal, perhaps. This book is one of the ones that made a huge difference to the way I did and do theology.

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