Daily Archives: March 7, 2011

Rosemary Ruether

In Jacquelyn Grant’s White Women’s Christ and Black Women’s Jesus, I read about feminist theologian Rosemary Ruether. According to Dr. Grant, life experiences contributed to Ruether becoming a feminist theologian.  Early on, Ruether stood against “racism, classism, imperialism, and then … Continue reading

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Clarifying Von Rad and Noth

I started Ernest Nicholson’s The Pentateuch in the Twentieth Century.  It’s helping me to understand Gerhard Von Rad and Martin Noth better. 1.  A question I have had about Von Rad concerns his definition of the Hexateuch: What was it, … Continue reading

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