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August 2, 2016 – We hear lots of talk concerning spirituality and prayer, yet it takes a beautiful mind like Matthew Fox to step in and define these terms we so readily us, but perhaps don’t entirely comprehend.
In our interview, we discuss spirituality and how it’s about depth – about living our lives out of depth and not on the superficial surface of things.
That creativity is about making decisions that lead to our morality.
And that prayer is our radical response to life. It’s our yes’s and our no’s; it’s our thank you.
You don’t want to miss this moving and galvanizing interview.
Formal Bio:
“Matthew Fox might well be the most creative, the most comprehensive, surely the most challenging religious-spiritual teacher in America .
He has the scholarship, the imagination, the courage, the writing skill to fulfill this role at a time when the more official Christian theological traditions are having difficulty in establishing any vital contact with either the spiritual possibilities of the present or with their own most creative spiritual traditions of the past….
He has, it seems, created a new mythic context for leading us out of our contemporary religious and spiritual confusion into a new clarity of mind and peace of soul, by affirming rather than abandoning any of our traditional beliefs.”
Matthew Fox is an American priest and theologian.
He was an early and influential exponent of a movement that came to be known as Creation Spirituality.
And what is creation spirituality? “Honoring all of creation as Original Blessing, Creation Spirituality integrates the wisdom of Eastern and Western spirituality and global indigenous cultures with the emerging scientific understanding of the universe, and the passion of creativity. It is both a tradition and a movement, celebrated by mystics and agents of social change from every age and culture. It is also the tradition of the historical Jesus himself since it is the wisdom tradition of Israel.”
The movement draws inspiration from the mystical philosophies of such medieval Catholic visionaries as Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas, Saint Francis of Assisi, Julian of Norwich, Dante Alighieri, Meister Eckhart, and Nicholas of Cusa, as well as the wisdom traditions of Christian scriptures.
Creation Spirituality is also strongly aligned with ecological and environmental movements of the late 20th century and embraces numerous spiritual traditions around the world, including Buddhism, Judaism, Sufism, and Native American spirituality, with a focus on “deep ecumenism.”
Fox has written 30 books that have sold millions of copies. You can learn more here at his website.
Listen to “A Way to God with Matthew Fox 08/02/16” on Spreaker.
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