Fox explores and celebrates the mystical path with insightful commentary on the thoughts and revelations of some of history’s greatest religious visionaries.
by Matthew Fox
As a member of the Catholic Dominican Order for 34 years, Fox held closely to the mystical teachings of Christianity — teachings that embraced the feminine, the natural world and social justice in its vision of the sacred.
This vision continually put him at odds with the Vatican and in 1998, he was expelled from the order by Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict.
Fox believes that through the ages, religious patriarchal hierarchy and rigidity have obscured Christianity’s most beneficial and essential teachings: those that arise out of personal, mystical experiences of the Divine. A true religious renewal, according to Fox, can arise only through the mystical dimension of faith.
In the book, he offers a wide-ranging collection of quotations from Christianity’s greatest mystics and prophets of the past two thousand years. Fox explores and celebrates the mystical path with insightful commentary on the thoughts and revelations of some of history’s greatest religious visionaries.
$16.95 — New World Library, 40 Pamaron Way, Novato, CA 94949.
Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 30, Number 2, February/March 2011.
April 13, 2012
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