Rosemary Radford Ruether

Brings together writings by 14 women from Latin America, Asia and Africa on the meanings and consequences of ecological and theological issues in their own contexts and the implications that they have for women in the first world.

Here, Ruether uses feminist theology as a tool to expose the male-centred bias of classical theology, examining the ways in which the female has been (uncomfortably) accommodated within the Christian tradition. She then articulates a faith which...

How did a religion founded on the loosening of earthly ties come to extol the virtues of the traditional family? In this history of the relationship between Christianity and the family, Ruether reveals the misconceptions in the family values debate.