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Creation Spirituality Steps Out of the Catholic World |
07/24/2023
by Rick Reich-Kuykendall |
Fox was silenced by the
Vatican from 1989-1990, was expelled from the Dominican Order on March 3, 1993, and was later forced to leave Holy Names College. In 1996 he, for the most part, moved the Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality to downtown Oakland. |
Many of his teachers in the program at Holy Names College relocated with Fox and began the University of Creation Spirituality, which provided doctor of ministry degrees (D. Min.) which built on whatever area one’s master’s degree was in, in order for the student to learn how to live one’s spirituality in the workplace. | |
Since that time, the University of Creation Spirituality morphed into Wisdom University, and Fox no longer deals with the school. But Fox founded the Order of the Sacred Earth; he has a non-profit called Friends of Creation Spirituality; and teaches at Creation Spirituality events put on by Creation Spirituality Communities, and other Creation Spirituality related
programs. |
Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia, where Matthew Fox was granted an honorary Doctor of Letters in 2000. Photo by MPen92. Wikimedia Commons. | Besides being the author of over thirty books which have sold more than 1.5 million copies in fifty-six languages, Fox was the recipient of the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award, and the Ghandi-King-Ikeda Award from Morehouse College.
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It is my intention to provide you the reader with some gems from Matthew Fox’s writings on the Four Paths so you can see the beauty in what he teaches, and thus help you to (as I did) fall in love with Creation
Spirituality! |
See Matthew Fox, Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality. See also Fox, Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest. Banner image: “Leaving the Manse,” lithograph by J.M. Corner (1893); a minister and his family leave their manse to form the Free Church of Scotland in 1843 — in a manner similar to Matthew’s departure from the Catholic Church to form Creation Spirituality as an independent movement. Wikimedia Commons. |
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Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation
Spirituality
To encapsulate the life and work of Matthew Fox would be a daunting task for any save his colleague Dr. Charles Burack, who had the full cooperation of his subject. Fox has devoted 50 years to developing and teaching the tradition of Creation Spirituality and in doing so has reinvented forms of education and worship. His more than 40 books, translated into 78 languages, are inclusive of today’s science and world spiritual traditions and have awakened millions to the much neglected earth-based mystical tradition of the West. Essential
Writings begins by exploring the influences on Fox’s life and spirituality, then presents selections from all Fox’s major works in 10 sections.
“The critical insights, the creative connections, the centrality of Matthew Fox’s writings and teaching are second to none for the radical renewal of Christianity.” ~~ Richard Rohr, OFM. | |
Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest (Revised/Updated Edition)
Matthew Fox’s stirring autobiography, Confessions, reveals his personal, intellectual, and spiritual journey from altar boy, to Dominican priest, to his eventual break with the Vatican. Five new chapters in this revised and updated edition bring added perspective in light of the author’s continued journey, and his reflections on the current changes taking place in church, society and the
environment.
“The unfolding story of this irrepressible spiritual revolutionary enlivens the mind and emboldens the heart — must reading for anyone interested in courage, creativity, and the future of religion.”
—Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self | |
See Matthew Fox's full calendar
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Join Matthew Fox and Brian Swimme in a free online event hosted by The Shift Network: “Hope for Humanity’s Future: Science, Spirituality & the Noosphere: Find Deeper Meaning in Our Spiritual Traditions With Illuminating Insights in Science & Technology.” Tuesday, July 25,
12:00 pm PT. Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox for a Cosmic Mass and Panel Forum at the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions - A Call to Conscience: Defending Freedom & Human Rights, August 14-18 in Chicago, IL Wed., 8/16, 7:00pm CT - The Cosmic Mass - Honoring Gaia, Solidarity for Our Earth Thurs., 8/17, 1:00pm CT – Panel and Response to The Cosmic Mass Register HERE. |
Creation Spirituality Conversations |
Aaron Perry hosts Matthew Fox on the Y On
Earth podcast, on “Hildegard von Bingen & Her “Viriditas,” sharing profound wisdom and deep insights about the essential importance of our relationship with Mother Earth, our celebration of the Divine Feminine, and our connection with Creation Spirituality, drawing upon centuries
of knowledge and wisdom from indigenous and mystical traditions world-wide… particularly from the Rhineland Mystic Movement of the medieval European Renaissance, and a most extraordinary woman at its helm: Hildegard von Bingen. | |
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