This publication is an autobiography tracing Rosemary Radford Ruether's highbrow improvement and writing occupation. Ruether examines the impression of her mom and relations on her improvement and especially her interactions with the Roman Catholic spiritual culture. She delves into her exploration of interfaith relatives with Judaism and Islam in addition. Her academic formation at Scripps university and the significance of old theology can also be an incredible emphasis. psychological sickness has additionally affected Ruether's extended family within the individual of her son, and he or she information the family's fight with this factor. ultimately during this highbrow autobiography, Ruether explores her lengthy drawback and involvement with ecology, feminism, and the hunt for a spirituality and perform for a livable planet.

"This is a truly gripping ebook. I learn it two times, and located it convincing and at issues very moving."
--Joseph C. Hough, Jr., Union Theological Seminary

"This autobiography by way of the most individual and influential thinkers of our time transcends the limits of autobiography. We study much approximately Rosemary Ruether, yet simply because a lot is ready her concept, and her inspiration is so insightful, we research very much concerning the global within which we have now all been residing. Ruether is a critical critic of what has been, yet she additionally bargains wish for what could but be."
--John Cobb, Claremont college of Theology

"Scholars, scholars, and seekers will all locate a lot to consider in Rosemary Reuther's highbrow autobiography. those that be aware of her paintings and value will have fun with this intimate disclosure of the tips, insights, and other people that experience formed her scholarship. these drawn to the evolution of a number one feminist philosopher can be occupied with the unfolding tale of this unheard of lifestyles. and people looking out themselves might be suggested and inspired by way of her quest for desire and meaning."
--William E. Lesher, Lutheran university of Theology at Chicago

"In one individual we get the historian with a wide-angle lens, the theologian with a woman's sharp eye, the activist with lifelong commitments. What an schooling to observe how a lifestyles now not so assorted from our personal unfolds from one awakening to another!"
--Antoinette cord, San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union

Rosemary Radford Ruether earned her MA and PhD at Claremont Graduate college in 1960 and 1965. She has taught on the Howard college tuition of faith in Washington, DC; at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northwestern college in Evanston, Illinois; on the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California; and shortly on the Claremont institution of Theology and Graduate college. She is writer or editor of forty-seven books.