Matthew Fox (präst)

Matthew Fox, ursprungligen Timothy James Fox, född 21 december 1940, är en amerikansk präst och teolog. Han är en tidigare medlem av Dominikanerorden inom den Romersk-katolska kyrkan men lämnade den och blev medlem av den Episkopala kyrkan då han uteslöts 1993. Fox var en tidig och inflytelserik företrädare för en rörelse som kom att bli känd som Creation Spirituality. Rörelsen hämtar inspiration från de mystiska filosofierna hos sådana medeltida katolska visionärer som Hildegard av Bingen, Thomas av Aquino, Franciskus av Assisi, Julian av Norwich, Dante Alighieri, Mäster Eckhart och Nicolaus Cusanus, såväl som från den judiska traditionens visdom och profetiska traditioner. Creation Spirituality är också starkt i linje med det sena 1900-talets ekologiska rörelser, och omfattar talrika andliga traditioner runt omkring i världen, inkluderande buddhismen, judendomen, sufismen och Amerikas urfolks andlighet med fokus på "deep ecumenism" (djup ekumenik) och religionsdialog. Fox har skrivit 35 böcker som har blivit översatta till 68 språk och har sålt miljoner exemplar.

Fox bok Original blessing. A primer in creation spirituality är hans kanske mest betydande verk, och lägger fundamentet för hela hans ekologiska andlighet, hans ekoteologi. Detta fundament är att skapelsen är något gott, människan är skapad god och arvsynden existerar inte utan är en fallen kyrkas försök att smutskasta Guds skapelse. Istället för arvsynd bör man enligt Fox tala om "arvvälsignelsen".

Litteratur av Matthew Fox 
 Religion USA: Religion and Culture by way of TIME Magazine (1971), Listening Press, OCLC 489983768
 On Becoming a Musical, Mystical Bear: Spirituality American Style (1972), Harper & Row, , (1976) Paulist Press, paperback:  Republished as Prayer: A Radical Response to Life (2001), Tarcher/Putnam, 
 Western Spirituality: Historical Roots, Ecumenical Routes (1979) Fides/Claretian 
 A Spirituality Named Compassion and the Healing of the Global Village, Humpty Dumpty and Us (1979), Winston Press, , (1990) Harper San Francisco, paperback: , (1999) Inner Traditions: 
 Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to the New Sensual Prophetic Spirituality (1980), Bear & Company, 
 Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart's Creation Spirituality, in New Translation (1980), Doubleday  (translated from German, with commentary) (1980) Image, paperback, ; republished as Passion for Creation: The Earth-honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart (2000), Inner Traditions, 
 Western Spirituality: Historical Roots, Ecumenical Routes (1981), Bear & Company, 
 Manifesto for a Global Civilization (with Brian Swimme), 1982, Bear & Company, 
 Meditations with Meister Eckhart (1983), Bear & Company, 
 Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality (1983), Bear & Company revised ed. 1996, , Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions, (2000) Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 
 Illuminations on Hildegard of Bingen Text by Hildegard of Bingen/Commentary by Matthew Fox; (1985) Bear & Co. paperback , Republished (2002) Bear & Company. paperback 
 Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works: With Letters and Songs (1987), Bear & Company, 
 The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (1988) Harper San Francisco,  (1988) HarperOne, paperback, 
 Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth (1991), Harper San Francisco, 
 Creation Spirituality and the Dreamtime, with Catherine Hammond, eds. (1991) Morehouse Publishing Co., 
 Sheer Joy: Conversations With Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (1992), Harper San Francisco,  (2003) Tarcher/Putnam paperback: , forward: Rupert Sheldrake, afterword: Bede Griffiths, translation: Richard Tres
 The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time, (1993) Harpercollins (hardcover)  (1995) Harper One (paperback) 
 The Sacred Universe with Rupert Sheldrake, (1993) Sounds True (audiocassette) 
 Wrestling With the Prophets: Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (1995), Harper San Francisco, , (2003) Tarcher, paperback: 
 Passion for Creation: The Earth-honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart, (1995), Doubleday, 
 Vision: The Life and Music of Hildegard von Bingen with Hildegard of Bingen, Barbara Newman, Jane Bobko (1995) Studio 
 In the Beginning There Was Joy: A Celebration of Creation for Children of All Ages (1995) Crossroad Publishing Company , (1995) Godsfield Press Ltd. (paperback) 
 The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet (1996), coauthor Rupert Sheldrake, Harper San Francisco, , Revised edition 2014, Monkfish Publishing Company, 
 Natural Grace: Dialogues on Creation, Darkness, and the Soul in Spirituality and Science, with coauthor Rupert Sheldrake, (1996), Doubleday, ,	(1997) Image paperback: 
 Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest (1996), HarperOne , (1997) Harper San Francisco, paperback: , (Fox autobiography), updated edition 2015, North Atlantic Books, 
 A Spirituality Named Compassion (1999) Inner Traditions 
 One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths (2000), Jeremy P. Tarcher, , (2000)
 Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Lessons for Transforming Evil in Soul and Society, (2000) Doubleday, hardcover, , (2000) Three Rivers Press, paperback, , Revised edition 2016, North Atlantic Books, 
 Prayer: A Radical Response to Life 2001 Tarcher 
 Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet (2002), Jeremy P. Tarcher, (hardcover) , Tarcher  (2004)
 Wrestling With the Prophets: Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life 2003 Tarcher 
 One River, Many Wells (2004) Tarcher, hardcover, , 	(2004) Tarcher, paperback, 
 Sheer Joy (2003) Tarcher 
 A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity (2006), Inner Traditions, hardcover,  (Fox's "95 Theses"), (2006)
 The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human (2006) CopperHouse paperback/CD/DVD edition 
 The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine (2008) New World Library, hardcover, , (2009) New World Library
 The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved (2011), Sterling Ethos, 
 Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations (2011), New World Library, 
 Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint For Our Times (2012), Namaste Publishing, 
 Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision For a New Generation (2013), coauthor Adam Bucko, North Atlantic Books, 
 Letters to Pope Francis (2013), Level Five Media, LLC, 
 Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior For Our Times (2014), New World Library, 
 Stations of the Cosmic Christ (2016), Tayen Lane Publishing, 
 A Way To God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey (2016), New World Library, 
 The Order of the Sacred Earth (2017), with Skylar Wilson and Jen Listug, Monkfish Publishing Company,

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