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...After reading "The Rib Uncaged" [April 19], I decided that Catholics Ruether, Daly and Callahan could profit from reading Of Human Love by Henry Daniel-Rops. As he states, "by nature, from her creation woman is dependent in much the same way as, grammatically, the feminine has affinity for the masculine." As for God being sexless: that is usually the case with pure spirits, I would assume. However, it was our Lord who directed that we address God as Father, and fathers have always been masculine in my experience. As for Christ's mother being glorified only because...
...Rosemary Ruether, 31, challenges the reactionary character of institutional Christianity in The Church Against Itself (Herder and Herder; $5.50). Married and the mother of three, Mrs. Ruether has a doctorate in religion from California's Claremont Graduate School and is a lecturer at Howard University in Washington. She gained early notoriety as a Catholic controversialist with a 1964 article in the Saturday Evening Post called "Why I Believe in Birth Control," in which she argued that the church's ban on contraception was injurious to a healthy marriage. More recently, she has argued with equal vigor in favor...
...Ruether starts with the premise that Christianity has a built-in tension. Jesus' original proclamation was an eschatological vision looking ahead to the end of the world; yet any church inevitably takes on cultural forms and thus looks backward into history. She concedes that the church as an institution is necessary; but the more it becomes a prisoner of tradition the less able it is to keep alive the prophetic spirit that gives it meaning. The ideal state of the church, she argues, is not a formalized organization of worshipers but a community, an event, a human happening. This...
...afternoon. Standing on the pitcher's mound, the only dry spot on the field, Jesse Haines, a garage keeper from Phillipsburg, Ohio, held the Yankees to five hits. Still unsatisfied, he grasped a slim yellow bat and drove one of the deliveries of his opponent, furtive "Dutch" Ruether, into the right-field bleachers for a home run. Score: St. Louis, 4; New York...