Women-Church: Theology and Practice of Feminist Liturgical
Communities Rosemary Radford Ruether (Harper and Row ,1985).
Characteristics of Women's Church according to Ruether's ideal:
1. Repudiation of ordained ministry - to minister to not lord
over
dismantling of clericalism - clericalism built upon patriarchy
"It is unlikely that women will be able to function in more
than token ways in the ordained minsitry " problem of senior
minsiter lateral movement.
2. Women of the Church Coalition Chicago Nov. 1983 "Women
Church speaks"
95 % Roman Catholic but 5 % protestannt petitioned to have the
Woman-chruhc movenent ecumenical.
3. creation based spirituality - the grace of redemptive life
is not beyond nature, but grace or divine gift is the ground of
being or nature. Creation is itself the original grace or blessing