Redemption means overcoming all forms of patriarchy …. Suffering is a factor in the liberation process, not as a means of redemption, but as the risk that one takes when one struggles to overcome unjust systems whose beneficiaries resist change. The means of redemption is conversion, opening up to one another, changing systems of distorted relations, creating loving and life-giving communities of people here and now…
Rosemary Radford Reuther. Christianity’s Dangerous Memory by Diarmuid O’Murchu.