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Beauty Lies at the Heart
of the Spiritual Journey |
08/12/2023
by Rick
Reich-Kuykendall |
Today, we finish a week on the Via
Creativa. Among today’s quotations are some on learning and science, as well as quotations on diversity. After our summary tomorrow, next week we will look at the Via Transformativa. In the book, Matthew Fox: Essential Readings in Creation Spirituality, Fox writes, “Beauty, and our role in co-creating it, lies at the heart of the spiritual journey.” |
It is my deepest conviction, based on my own personal experience as well as observation,
that learning is one of the most spiritual, ecstatic, mystical, and prayerful experiences available to us all. | Whether it’s a commissioned mural or graffiti, the impulse for creativity is strong in the human species. (This photo was taken in Lisbon, Portugal.) Photo by Jaime.Silva on
Flickr. |
God loves all of creation,
and science can help us more deeply penetrate
and appreciate the
mysteries and wisdom of God in creation.
Science is no enemy of true religion. The universal urge for diversity
does not extend to everything else except sexuality.
It extends across the board, to everything,
including homosexual and transgendered persons. |
| The Black
Madonna,
the Great Mother,
is not homophobic.
She welcomes the diversity
of sexual preferences
that are also part of creation, human and more than human. |
See Dr. Charles Burack, ed., Matthew Fox: Essential Readings in Creation Spirituality, p. 58. See also Fox, Creativity: When the Divine and Human Meet, p. 174. See also Fox, A New
Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity, p. 65 See also Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine, p. 149 Banner image: Mural of a whale: turning something unattractive into a thing of beauty and wonder. Image by adrimarie on Pixabay. |
Queries for Contemplation Among today’s quotations are some on learning and science, and also on diversity. Which speak to you at this point on your spiritual journey? |
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Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality
Selected
with an Introduction by Charles Burack
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. | |
Creativity: Where the Divine and Human Meet Because creativity is the key to both our genius and beauty as a species but also to our capacity for evil, we need to teach creativity and to teach ways of steering this God-like power in directions that promote love of life (biophilia) and not love of death (necrophilia). Pushing well beyond the bounds of conventional
Christian doctrine, Fox’s focus on creativity attempts nothing less than to shape a new ethic. “Matt Fox is a pilgrim who seeks a path into the church of tomorrow. Countless numbers will be happy to follow his lead.” –Bishop John Shelby Spong, author, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Living
in Sin | |
A
New Reformation: Creation Spirituality & The Transformation of Christianity A modern-day theologian’s call for the radical transformation of Christianity that will allow us to move once again from the hollow
trappings of organized religion to genuine spirituality. A New Reformation echoes the Reformation initiated by Martin Luther in 1517 and offers a new vision of Christianity that values the Earth, honors the feminine, and respects science and deep ecumenism.
"This is a deep and forceful book….With prophetic insight, Matthew Fox reveals what has corrupted religion in the West and the therapy for its healing." ~Bruce Chilton, author of Rabbi
Jesus: An Intimate Biography | |
The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging
from the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Spiritual Warrior….These timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to connect to their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Every man on this planet should read this book — not to mention every woman who wants to understand the struggles, often unconscious, that shape the men they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of
The Left Hand of God | |
See Matthew Fox's full calendar
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. |
Join Matthew Fox as he discusses “Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society” at an online Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, August 24, 4:00pm-6:00pm PT. 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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