The Creation Spirituality Lineage Calling All Social and Environmental Activists, Mystic Explorers, Justice Makers, Cosmic Thinkers, Earth Keepers |
Welcome to the Via Transformativa. |
08/14/2023
by Rick Reich-Kuykendall |
In speaking
of the Via Transformativa, Matthew says in Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality, “The creation spiritual journey culminates in compassion—which is both justice-making and celebration. Justice and joy equally make up our spiritual journeys.” |
God is experienced in our struggle for justice, healing, compassion, and celebration (via transformativa). The creation-centered spiritual tradition considers compassion rather than contemplation as the fulfillment of the spiritual | Rocker Jon Bon Jovi uses his influence to help feed the homeless and needy, at his JBJ Soul Kitchen in New Jersey. Video by CBS Sunday Morning. |
journey that takes one back to one’s origins in renewed ways. It considers justice to be absolutely integral to the spiritual journey. Compassion is the moral law of interconnectivity, the cosmic law of responding to another’s pain and suffering as well as
to another’s joy and celebration. |
| Compassion is knowing about the suffering and pain of others.
It is, in some way, knowing that pain, entering into it, sharing it and tasting it,
in so far as that is possible.
Compassion is not so simplistic as turning the other cheek. It might mean at times
taking |
whips and driving out moneylenders with anger and threats. |
See Dr. Charles Burack, ed., Matthew Fox: Essential Readings in Creation Spirituality, p. 59. See also Fox, A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity, p. 88 And Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality, p. 247.
And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth, p. 45.
And Fox,
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice, pp. 21 and 73. Banner image: True compassion is the ability to sympathetic and empathetic and giving a helping hand. Photo by U3190523. Wikimedia Commons. |
Queries for Contemplation Share an experience where you were able to show compassion for
another. |
Responses are welcomed. To add your comment, please click HERE
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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. | |
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 | |
Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation
Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story | |
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the
Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just Creator.
“A watershed theological work that offers a common ground for religious seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice.
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A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the meaning and practice of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the future that promises personal, social, and global healing, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate
activity.
“Well worth our deepest consideration…Puts compassion into its proper focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register | |
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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