Matthew Fox is an internationally acclaimed theologian and spiritual maverick who has spent the past forty years revolutionizing Christian theology, taking on patriarchal religion, and advocating for a creation-centered spirituality of compassion, justice, and resacralizing of the earth. Originally a Catholic priest, Fox was silenced for a year and then expelled from the Dominican Order by Cardinal Ratzinger for teaching liberation theology and Creation Spirituality. Fox currently serves as an Episcopal priest, having received what he calls "religious asylum" from the Episcopal Church. With exciting results, he has worked with young people to create the Cosmic Mass to revitalize worship by bringing elements of rave and other postmodern art forms to the Western liturgical tradition. He has written more than thirty books, which have sold over 1.5 million copies in sixty languages. He lives in Oakland, CA.
Praise for A Way to God
"This wise and marvelous book will profoundly inspire all those who
love Merton and want to know him more deeply."
-- Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred
Activism
"Important. . . . Fox's powerful portrait will inspire readers to
play and pray, love and labor, congregate and contemplate -- and
create a community of beings bound by compassion, justice, and
joy."
-- Charles Burack, Tikkun magazine
"A Way to God inscribes a profound intersection of lives -- Merton,
Fox, and more -- in the history of Christianity, Catholicism, and
the emerging Creation Spirituality so relevant to our globe's
current cultural evolution. Perhaps Merton's lament on the 'lost
art of listening' can be assuaged significantly by the profound
potential impacts of this new book."
-- Kurt Johnson, PhD, coauthor of The Coming Interspiritual Age
"The future of Christianity itself will depend upon its ability to
reinvent its forms and practices so that it might become a mutually
enhancing presence within the dynamics of life. Among current
spiritual theologians, no one has a more comprehensive vision of
the necessary changes that must take place than Matthew Fox. In A
Way to God he shows how Thomas Merton's work can be understood as a
powerful current within the Creation Spirituality tradition that is
so essential for this reimagining of Western religion."
-- Brian Thomas Swimme, professor of cosmology, California
Institute of Integral Studies
Praise for the work of Matthew Fox
"Fox is a prophet of our own times. . . . His writing really
sparkles and is frequently reminiscent of the early works of Thomas
Merton."
-- Alan Jose, The Tablet: The International Catholic News
Weekly
"Matthew Fox might well be the most creative, the most
comprehensive, surely the most challenging religious-spiritual
teacher in America."
-- Thomas Berry, author of The Great Work
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