1995 Tanner-McMurrin Lecture

Image Source

“Gaia and God: Religious Resources for Earth Healing”
Lecture Resources

Lecture was given: Thursday, March 23, 1995 7:00p.m. Gore Auditorium
Seminar was held: Friday, March 24, 1995 11:00a.m. Gore auditorium

Rosemary Radford Ruether is a Catholic feminist theologian teaching at Garrett Theological seminary and is a member of the Graduate Faculty of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She teaches course on the interrelation of Christian theology and history to social justice issues, including sexism, racism, poverty, militarism, ecology, and interfaith relations.

Dr. Ruether holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Scripps College (1958), an M.A. in Ancient History (1960) and a Ph.D. in Classics and Patristics (1965) from Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California. She holds eleven honorary doctorates, the most recent from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (1994).

Rosemary Radford Ruether is the author or editor of twenty-five books. Among these are Sexism and God-talk: Toward a Feminist Theology (1983-1993); Woman-Church: Theology and Practice of Feminist Liturgical Communities (1986); Contemporary Catholicism; Crises and challenges (1987); The Wrath of Jonah: The crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (1989) and Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing (1992).

Professor Ruether is also a contributor to 90 book symposia and writes regularly for such journals as The National Catholic Reporter and Sojourners. She is a board member of the Palestine Human Rights Information Center (Jerusalem), Catholics for a Free Choice, and the Chicago Center for Peace Studies.

Dr. Ruether is married to Herman J. Ruether, a political scientist and cultural historian and has three grown children, Rebecca, David and Mimi. She has traveled and lectured widely at universities and church conferences in the United States, and also in Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil and Argentina, South Africa and Zimbabwe, Israel/Palestine, England, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, and Germany, India, Korea, Japan and the Philippines. One of her major interests is the globalization of feminist theology.

Resources available for this lecture:

Lecture Text:

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this material. If you do not have the Reader you may download it by clicking here:

If you have the Reader click on the link below.

Rosemary Radford Ruether Lecture