“Hail Goddess full of grace”

California Catholic Daily ^ | April 24, 2007

[NYer]

B.A., Scripps College

M.S., Claremont Graduate School

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School

Rosemary Radford Ruether is the Carpenter Emerita Professor of Feminist Theology at Pacific School of Religion and the GTU, as well as the Georgia Harkness Emerita Professor of Applied Theology at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a scholar, teacher, and activist in the Roman Catholic Church, and is well known as a groundbreaking figure in Christian feminist theology.  Ruether has published numerous books, including Sexism and God-Talk, In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women’s Religious Writing (ed. with Rosemary Skinner Keller), and The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Her most recent books include Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History (May 2005), Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions (Nature's Meaning) (January 2005), and Mountain Sisters: From Convent To Community In Appalachia. Currently, she is collaborating on a multi-volume Encyclopedia of Women in American Religion with Rosemary Skinner Keller, a project funded by the Lilly Endowment, due in 2006. 

[maryz]

Aaarghh! A “rosary” to the “god/dess” — it’s a two-fer!

[nanetteclaret]

There’s nothing more pitiful than an aging hippy.

[VRWCmember]

“The Goddess rosary is grounded in traditions of the Christian Church and the proclamation of the gospel which is a vision of release from bondage for a new creation,” says the church’s web site.

The traditions of the Christian Church and the proclamation of the gospel all speak of ONLY ONE GOD, and only one mediator between God and Man -- Jesus Christ. There is no room for goddesses in the Christian faith.

[kittymyrib]

Just add this to the list of heresies found in the ELCA these days. No wonder they decided to fellowship with ECUS. Leaders of these condemned sects naturally flock together.
Jesus says, “IF you hold to my Word, then you are really my disciples...” (John 8:31). That is basic to being a Christian, and these pretenders are no longer continuing to preach and teach Jesus Word.

[HarleyD]

Just goes to show you wackos exist among the Protestants and Catholics. I just hope the Ebenezer Lutheran Church and the Pacific School of Religion doesn’t sit on the California fault line.

[Aquinasfan]

A picture is worth a thousand words. You have to hand it to Rush.

[bboop]

“The warm embrace” — the warmth would be the fires of Hell.

[Rutles4Ever]

So many reprobates, so little time left.

[JustMytwocents70]

man, am I happy I left the wako ELCA and went home by
swimming the tibre to my RC Catholic roots.

This is what happens when you let radical feminists become
“priests”

[romanesq]

This is vile beyond words. The Rosary is sacred and a powerful force as anyone who has really applied it knows. Without it, I know some dark days may have not been beaten back.

If you want to glorify your tonage added to your hips and such, go pray before an altar of Ben & Jerrys.

[Esther Ruth]

Ruether calls the exclusive use of male imagery for God “idolatry.”

Isa 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

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“I felt that I had stepped into a Presence, like a mother’s warm embrace,”

2Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

[NeoCaveman]

A picture is worth a thousand words. You have to hand it to Rush.

Rush would certainly hand it back...

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

“The Goddess rosary is grounded in traditions of the Christian Church

Really? In nearly 50 years in the church and 30 years of theological and biblical study, somehow I missed that one.

[Charles Henrickson]

Ebenezer Lutheran Church

Not really Lutheran. It's ELCA.

[Moose4]

Barf. Was it Ezekiel or Jeremiah that denounced the Israelites for “offering cakes to the Queen of Heaven?”

2500 years later, everything old is new again.

}:-)4

[DungeonMaster]

Why am I not surprised?