Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality

Selected with an Introduction by Charles Burack

Modern Spiritual Masters Series

ISBN 978-1-62698-455-4 paperback 272pp., $24.00 Pub Date: March 23, 2022

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. Matthew Fox, best known for his bestselling book Original Blessing, became a cause célèbre when, after being silenced by the Vatican for a year, he was forced out of the Dominican order, and subsequently became an Episcopal priest. Through fifty years, more than 40 books translated into 78 languages, and countless engagements as teacher and mentor, Fox earned recognition by figures as varied as Thomas Berry, Bede Griffiths, Joseph Campbell, Clarissa Pinkola-Estes, Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi, Joanna Macy, Leonardo Boff, Mirabai Starr, Richard Rohr, Sr. Joan Chittister and David Korten.

In his Introduction to Matthew Fox, Dr. Burack recounts the life and influences that helped form Fox’s outlook and spirituality, from the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart to 20th century Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. The book then presents selections from all Fox’s major works in 10 sections: “The Creation Spirituality Tradition,” “Dreams and Visions,” “Science and Creation Spirituality,” “Creation Mystics,” “Spiritual Practice, The Cosmic Mass, and Creativity,” “Combating Evil: Prophecy and Compassion,” “Youth, Education and Work,” “Social, Political, and Ecological Activism,” “Church and Beyond,” “Deep Ecumenism, Interfaith.” The book includes an inspiring conclusion by Fox himself: “The Future: A Letter to Young Seekers.”

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