"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. Here he has given us abundant selections from the spiritual literature of the Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist and the indigenous peoples of Africa and America to illuminate our understanding of Creation, the Divine, the Human experience of the Divine, and our way in to the future. Out of these sources, and with reference to discovery of an emergent universe by contemporary science, 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".
And I signed up to see him today! I will review his books in a separate post - but overall, I am most impressed with his ability to speak between spiritual traditions, and honor the goodness in them all while creating a new way of seeing. This talk/weekend is sponsored by CHIME of Maine. They have also sponsored a series concerning religions/traditions of the world in Newburyport this year which has been fabulous. I am excited to attend and learn something new!
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