Reuther rejects the transcendent, imperial God of patriarchal Christianity in favor of "the root human image of the divine as the Primal Matrix, the great womb within which all things, Gods and humans, sky and earth, human and nonhuman beings, are generated. . . . Here the divine is not 'up there' as abstracted ego, but beneath and around us as encompassing source of life and renewal of life." In this image of what Ruether would have us name "God/ess," the divine is clearly immanent, but also all-encompassing, also transcendent to some degree.
— Rosemary Radford Ruether, When God Becomes Goddess by Richard Grigg