Radford ruether biography

American theologian (–)

Rosemary Radford Ruether (2 November – 21 May ) was an American Catholic feminist theologian known for her significant contributions to the fields of feminist theology and ecofeminist theology.^[1] Her teaching and her writings helped establish these areas of theology as distinct fields of study; she is recognized as one of the first scholars to bring women's perspectives on Christian theology into mainstream academic discourse.^[2][3]

Ruether was active in the civil rights movement in the s,^[2] and her own work was influenced by liberation and black theology.^[4] She taught at Howard University for ten years, and later at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.^[2] Over the course of her career, she wrote on a wide range of topics, including antisemitism, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the intersection of feminism and Christianity, and the climate crisis.^[5]