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Divinization, Radiance & Moving Beyond
Anthropology |
We meditated yesterday on radiance, another word for doxa or glory or the Cosmic Christ. It is found, according to Hildegard in all things. (Today’s science also tells us there are photons or light waves in all atoms in the
universe.) |
Hildegard shares words she heard from the Creator God: “I am the day that does not shine by the sun; rather by me the sun is ignited.” The words in Genesis, “Let there be light,” do not refer to the sun. In that creation story the sun came after that first creation of light–long |
Photo meditation on the journey of a photon from the center of the sun to our Earth. CosmoBoy |
after according to today’s creation story from science. Nine billion years after. Hildegard draws an analogy between the sun and God and the sun and us when she says that just as every ray of the sun we call the sun; so every ray
of God we call God. So we are God (not all of God but a ray of God). The Cosmic Christ is in us all and renders us godly. The challenge is to act like it as best we can. Love. Joy. Compassion. Justice. Wisdom. All are names for the
divine. All are effects of our divinization. |
Man enthroned and self-reflecting: “Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles.” Photo by Oh Paris on Flickr. | The term “divinization” is rare among western theologians and especially since the modern era when the Enlightenment “deposed the
Cosmic Christ” as Eastern Orthodox theologian Jarasof Pelikan put it. Biblical |
scholar
Krister Stendahl criticizes Christians for being “more interested in ourselves than in God or in the fate of his creation.” He criticizes Rudolf Bultmann whose “whole theological enterprise has one great mistake…he takes for granted that basically the
center of gravity–the center from which all interpretation springs—is anthropology, the doctrine of man.” The cosmos is left out. Nature and earth are left out. Does this help explain climate change and the killing of Mother Earth that rages all around
us? |
Adapted from Matthew Fox, The
Coming of the Cosmic Christ, pp. 111,79. See also Fox, Naming the Unnameable: 89 Wonderful and Useful Names for God…Including the Unnameable God, pp. 1f., 26, 37, 49f., 66f. Banner Image: What is anthropocentrism but a “Maze of mirrors?” Photo by Kathy on Flickr. |
Queries for Contemplation Has a cosmic awareness begun to replace the doctrine of man in
your view of the world? And of theology? And of spirituality? |
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The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance In what may be considered the most comprehensive outline of the Christian paradigm shift of our Age, Matthew Fox eloquently foreshadows the manner in which the spirit of Christ resurrects in terms of the return to an earth-based mysticism, the expression of creativity, mystical sexuality, the respect due the young, the rebirth of effective forms of worship—all of these mirroring the
ongoing blessings of Mother Earth and the recovery of Eros, the feminine aspect of the Divine. “The eighth wonder of the world…convincing proof that our Western religious tradition does indeed have the depth of imagination to reinvent its faith.” — Brian Swimme, author of The Universe Story and Journey of the
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Naming the Unnameable: 89 Wonderful and Useful Names for God …Including the Unnameable God
Too often, notions of God have been used as a means to control and
to promote a narrow worldview. In Naming the Unnameable, renowned theologian and author Matthew Fox ignites our imaginations by offering a colorful range of Divine Names gathered from scientists and poets and mystics past and present, inviting us to always begin where true spirituality begins: from experience.
“This book is timely, important and admirably brief; it is also open ended—there are always more names to
come, and none can exhaust God’s nature.” -Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, author of Science Set Free and The Presence of the Past
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See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE |
Join Matthew
Fox as he discusses “The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine” in an Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, September 14, 4:00-6:00 pm PT. To register, click HERE. |
Join Matthew
Fox and a speaker’s panel for brief Creation Spirituality presentations, music, songs, prayer, and refreshments in a free online and on-site Celebration of Matthew Fox's donation of papers to the University of Colorado, Boulder. University of Colorado Boulder Libraries – Center for British & Irish Studies – 5th Floor Thursday, September 21, 4:00pm-6:00pm PT RSVP HERE
for on-site attendance only. Virtual attendance link will be forthcoming. |
Join Matthew
Fox as he discusses “A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity” in an Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, October 19, 4:00-6:00 pm PT. To register, click HERE.
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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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