Matthew Fox (priest)

Matthew Fox ( born 1940 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American priest and theologian. He is the most prominent representative of Creation Spirituality, a Christian movement that refers to medieval mystics and theologians such as Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa.

Life

Fox was given the name Timothy James. In 1967 he received the Roman Catholic priesthood and took the name Matthew ( according to Matthew the Evangelist ) on. He received his master's degree, both in philosophy and in theology at the Catholic University " Aquinas Institute of Theology " ( St. Louis, Missouri). Then his doctorate summa cum laude with Fox to Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D.) at the Institut Catholique de Paris (Paris, France). Because of controversial doctrinal statements Fox lost by the then head of the Pontifical Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ( later Pope Benedict XVI. ), 1988 his theological teaching license. He was dismissed from the Order of the Dominicans in 1992. In 1994, the Episcopal Church it the United States of America as a clergyman. Fox was by Bishop William Swing ( b. 1936 ) ordained in the Diocese of California.

Fox's books, especially the title Original Blessing ( 1983) and The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (1988, German: vision of the Cosmic Christ, 1991), the movement of the encountered "creation spirituality" to. In his autobiography, published in 1996 Confessions: The Making of a Post- Denominational Priest Fox describes his life as a Dominican monk and his struggles with the Vatican about his understanding of early Christianity. Fox is the author of 22 other books of religious content.

Fox first taught at Holy Names College in Oakland, California, where he led a " Institute for Culture and Creation Spirituality " ( Institute for Culture and Creation Spirituality ). After further controversy about his controversial teachings Fox founded in 1996 in Oakland also its own university, the " University of Creation Spirituality " ( University of Creation Spirituality ), the beginning of 2005, renamed itself in Wisdom University ( University of wisdom ). The school is effective for alternative forms an ecumenical worship services and promote liaison Christian liturgical forms with rituals of Native Americans (eg sweat lodge ) or pagan nature rituals.

Fox enters the devotional form of " cosmic exhibition « a ( The Cosmic Mass, TCM), connects the western liturgical elements, live and electronic music, multimedia elements, as well as Asian and indigenous religious elements.

During the Whitsun weekend 2005 Matthew Fox hit his own 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, where Martin Luther had triggered the Reformation with his Theses on 31 October 1517. In his theses Fox calls for a new reformation of Christianity. In its action, the accompanying book, A New Reformation (A New Reformation ) argues Fox, there are already two ' Christianities ' and it is time to recognize this fact and to lead the Western spiritual tradition in a new direction.

Fox has written two books, together with the British biologist and parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake.

German

  • Vision of the Cosmic Christ. Departure into the third millennium. Cross, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 978-3-7831-1073-9, hardcover, 400 pages
  • Creation Spirituality. Healing and deliverance for the First World. Cross, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 978-3-7831-1231-3, 189 pages, paperback
  • Angel - Cosmic Intelligence. (shared with Rupert Sheldrake ), Kösel, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-466-36691-7, 335 pages ( Paperback 2005)
  • The soul is a field. The dialogue between science and spirituality. (shared with Rupert Sheldrake ) joke, 2002, ISBN 978-3-502-61023-6, 223 pages
  • Revolution of the work. To ensure that all live and work meaningful. Kösel, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-466-36448-0, hardcover, 398 pages
  • Ratzinger and his crusade. A dedicated plea for Creation Spirituality held dogmas power. ARUN, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-86663-065-9, hardcover, 308 pages

English

  • On Becoming a Musical, Mystical Bear: Spirituality American Style (1972 ), Harper & Row, ISBN 0-06-062912-6, Paulist Press 1976 paperback: ISBN 0-8091-1913-7 republished as Prayer: A Radical Response to Life (2001), Tarcher / Putnam, ISBN 1-58542-098-0
  • Republished as Passion for Creation: The Earth - honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart (2000), Inner Traditions, ISBN 0-89281-801-8
  • Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty- Six Themes, and Two Questions, Jeremy P. Tarcher / Putnam, 2000, ISBN 1-58542-067-0
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