Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing

“Gaia and God is an admirably readable, wide-ranging account of world-views, claiming that the past has been too patriarchal and that the present needs a feminist corrective.  Each Of four sections–creation, destruction, domination and deceit, and healing–starts in past mythology, in religion, and ends in a contemporary descriptive account, typically with much science.  Ruether’s goal is prescriptive and therapeutic.  There are three classical creation stories: Babylonian, Hebrew, and Greek, and there is the modern scientific story.  There are biblical destructions: the Noah story, prophetic apocalyptic, and the Book of Revelation, somewhat oddly juxtaposed with the ecological crisis as religious ‘fantasy’ versus ecological ‘reality’ (p. 115).”

Summary Excerpted From: 

Rolston, Holmes. “Book Review: Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing.” Interpretation 48, no. 2 (April 1994): 188–90. https://doi.org/10.1177/002096430004800213.

Publisher’s Website: 

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/gaia-and-god-rosemary-r-ruether?variant=32117952315426

Recommended Citation (Chicago):

Ruether, Rosemary R. Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing. San Francisco: Harper, 1992.