"The prophets in Hebrew Scripture and Jesus in the Gospels are figures in conflict with the religious establishment. They denounce the use of religion to sacralize unjust privilege and to ignore the needs of the people. Prophetic faith announces a God who is active in history, to overturn an unjust social order and to transform the world into a new social order where there will be no more war, no more injustice, where justice between people and harmony with nature has been restored and all creation will be in communion with God."
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Rosemary Radford Ruether, "Prophetic Tradition and the Liberation of Women: Promise and Betrayal" (1994), Feminist Theology v. 2, n. 5, p. 59
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