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Quotes from Prophetic Tradition and the Liberation of Women: Promise and Betrayal — Rosemary Radford Ruether

1936–2022 United States

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Prophetic faith, by contrast, sets God in tension with the ruling class by having God speak, through the prophet, as advocate of the poor and the oppressed.

Prophetic Tradition and the Liberation of Women: Promise and Betrayal (1994)

The prophets in Hebrew Scripture and Jesus in the Gospels are figures in conflict with the religious establishment. They denounce the use of religion to sacralize unjust privilege and to ignore the needs of the people. Prophetic faith announces a God who is active in history, to overturn an unjust social order and to transform the world into a new social order where there will be no more war, no more injustice, where justice between people and harmony with nature has been restored and all creation will be in communion with God.

Prophetic Tradition and the Liberation of Women: Promise and Betrayal (1994)

The word of God comes through the prophet to denounce the unjust practices of the rich and powerful who grind the faces of the poor and oppress the widow and the orphan. The prophet also denounces the corruption of biblical religion itself into a religious establishment that has become purely cultic and has turned away from the social meaning of faith, which is justice and mercy.

Prophetic Tradition and the Liberation of Women: Promise and Betrayal (1994)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rosemary Radford Ruether (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.