A compilation of essays on the role of women in the institutional and ordained leadership of Western religion. The authors discuss religious women as charismatic leaders, holy women, martyrs, dissenters, renewers and reformers, as well as theological images of the feminine – in God, the Christ-Church relationship, and the self. The studies are historical and descriptive both, from the early church to the present day.
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Rosemary Radford Ruether earned her MA and Ph D at Claremont Graduate University in 1960 and 1965. She has taught at the Howard University School of Religion in Washington, DC; at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California; and presently at the Claremont School of Theology and Graduate University. She is author or editor of forty-seven books.