MATTHEW FOX BOOK LIST Orders: available @ www.matthewfox.org [email protected]510.835.0655 Naming the Unnameable: 89 Wonderful and Useful Names for God October 2018 $16.95 The Lotus & the Rose – co-author Lama Tsomo September 2018 $18.95 Stations of the Cosmic Christ – co-author Bishop Marc Andrus Oct. 2018 Paperback $ 24.95 / 2016 HB $39.99 Stations of the Cosmic Christ – Meditation Cards & Booklet Oct. 2018 $14.95 Order of the Sacred Earth – co-authors Jennifer Listug and Skylar Wilson July 2018 $16.95 A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey 2016 $18.95 Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Lessons for Transforming Evil in Soul and Society 2016, 1999 $18.95 Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest 2015, 1996 $18.95 Meister Eckhart: A Mystic Warrior for Our Times 2014 $17.95 Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation – co-author Adam Bucko 2013 $17.95 Letters to Pope Francis: Rebuilding a Church with Justice & Compassion 2013 $12.95 Hildegard of Bingen – A Saint For Our Times: Unleashing Her Power in the 21 st Century 2012 $17.95 The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved Paperback 2012 $14.95 Hardback 2011 $22.95 Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations 2011 $17.95 The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine 2008 $17.95 The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human (w/dvd) 2006 $20.95 A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality & the Transformation of Christianity 2006 $12.95 Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet 2002. Hardback $22 Paperback $14.95 Prayer: A Radical Response to Life 2001,(published 1972, On Becoming a Musical, Mystical Bear) $14.95 One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing From Global Faiths 2000. Paperback $18.95 The Physics of Angels – co-author Rupert Sheldrake 1996, 2014 $16.95 Natural Grace – co-author Rupert Sheldrake 1996. Hardback $22 Paperback $15 Passion for Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart 2000 (Breakthrough, 1980). $26.95 Wrestling With the Prophets: Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life 2003/1995 $15.95 The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood For Our Time 1995. $16.95 Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality 2003, 1992. $17.95 Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth 1991. $16 The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and The Birth of ….1988. $17.99 Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen 2002, 1985 . $20 Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality 2000, 1983. $16.95 Meditations with Meister Eckhart 1982. $14.00 A Spirituality Named Compassion 1979, 1990, 1999. $19.95 Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works, Songs & Letters 1987. $19.95 Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to Sensual, Prophetic Spirituality 1981. $14
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MATTHEW FOX BOOK LIST Orders: available @ www.matthewfox.org [email protected] 510.835.0655
Naming the Unnameable: 89 Wonderful and Useful Names for God October 2018 $16.95
The Lotus & the Rose – co-author Lama Tsomo September 2018 $18.95
Stations of the Cosmic Christ – co-author Bishop Marc Andrus Oct. 2018 Paperback $ 24.95 / 2016 HB $39.99
Stations of the Cosmic Christ – Meditation Cards & Booklet Oct. 2018 $14.95
Order of the Sacred Earth – co-authors Jennifer Listug and Skylar Wilson July 2018 $16.95
A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey 2016 $18.95
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Lessons for Transforming Evil in Soul and Society 2016, 1999 $18.95
Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest 2015, 1996 $18.95
Meister Eckhart: A Mystic Warrior for Our Times 2014 $17.95
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation – co-author Adam Bucko 2013 $17.95
Letters to Pope Francis: Rebuilding a Church with Justice & Compassion 2013 $12.95
Hildegard of Bingen – A Saint For Our Times: Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century 2012 $17.95
The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved
Paperback 2012 $14.95 Hardback 2011 $22.95
Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations 2011 $17.95
The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine 2008 $17.95
The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human (w/dvd) 2006 $20.95
A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality & the Transformation of Christianity 2006 $12.95
Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet 2002. Hardback $22 Paperback $14.95
Prayer: A Radical Response to Life 2001,(published 1972, On Becoming a Musical, Mystical Bear) $14.95
One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing From Global Faiths 2000. Paperback $18.95
The Physics of Angels – co-author Rupert Sheldrake 1996, 2014 $16.95
Passion for Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart 2000 (Breakthrough, 1980). $26.95
Wrestling With the Prophets: Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life 2003/1995 $15.95
The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood For Our Time 1995. $16.95
Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality 2003, 1992. $17.95
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth 1991. $16
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and The Birth of ….1988. $17.99
Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen 2002, 1985 . $20
Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality 2000, 1983. $16.95
Meditations with Meister Eckhart 1982. $14.00
A Spirituality Named Compassion 1979, 1990, 1999. $19.95
Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works, Songs & Letters 1987. $19.95
Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to Sensual, Prophetic Spirituality 1981. $14
What Is Creation Spirituality? Honoring all of creation as Original Blessing, Creation Spirituality integrates the wisdom of Eastern and
Western spirituality and global indigenous cultures, with the emerging scientific understanding of the
universe, and the passion of creativity. It is both a tradition and a movement, celebrated by mystics and
agents of social change from every age and culture. It is also the tradition of the historical Jesus himself
since it is the wisdom tradition of Israel. –Matthew Fox
Principles
1)The universe is fundamentally a blessing. Our relationship with the Universe fills us with awe.
2) In Creation, God is both immanent and transcendent. This is panentheism which is not theism
(God out there) and not atheism (no God anywhere). We experience that the Divine is in all things & all things are in the Divine.
3) God is as much Mother as Father, as much Child as Parent, as much God in mystery as the
God in history, as much beyond all words and images as in all forms and beings. We are liberated from the need to cling to God in one form or one literal name.
4) In our lives, it is through the work of spiritual practice that we find our deep and true selves. Through the arts of meditation and silence we cultivate a clarity of mind and move beyond fear into
compassion and community.
5) Our inner work can be understood as a four-fold journey involving:
– awe, delight, amazement (known as the Via Positiva)
– uncertainty, darkness, suffering, letting go (Via Negativa)
– birthing, creativity, passion (Via Creativa)
– justice, healing, celebration (Via Transformativa) We weave through these paths like a spiral danced, not a ladder climbed.
6) Every one of us is a mystic.
We can enter the mystical as much through beauty (Via Positiva) as through contemplation and
suffering (Via Negativa). We are born full of wonder and can recover it at any age.
7) Every one of us is an artist.
Whatever the expression of our creativity, it is our prayer and praise (Via Creativa).
8) Every one of us is a prophet.
Our prophetic work is to interfere with all forms of injustice and that which interrupts authentic life (Via
Transformativa).
9) Diversity is the nature of the Universe.
We rejoice in and courageously honor the rich diversity within the Cosmos and expressed among
individuals and across multiple cultures, religions and ancestral traditions.
10) The basic work of God is compassion and we, who are all original blessings and sons and
daughters of the Divine, are called to compassion. We acknowledge our shared interdependence; we rejoice at one another’s joys and grieve at one
another’s sorrows and labor to heal the causes of those sorrows.
11) There are many wells of faith and knowledge drawing from one underground river of Divine
wisdom. The practice of honoring, learning and celebrating the wisdom collected from these wells
is Deep Ecumenism. We respect and embrace the wisdom and oneness that arises from the diverse wells of all the sacred
traditions of the world.
12) Ecological justice is essential for the sustainability of life on Earth.
Ecology is the local expression of cosmology and so we commit to live in light of this value: to pass on
the beauty and health of Creation to future generations.
History Creation Spirituality is an ancient tradition, named and articulated most emphatically beginning in the
1970s by spiritual theologian Matthew Fox.
Drawing on the experiences, writings and rituals of all wisdom traditions, including indigenous cultures,
eastern and western spiritualities and contemporary science, Creation Spirituality runs too deeply and
broadly to be considered as ‘founded’ or invented’ by one person, or indeed, one tradition.
From his own perspective as a former Dominican priest, Fox writes: “Creation Spirituality is not a
newly invented path, but for twentieth century Westerners it is a newly discovered path.”
He further suggests, “Creation Spirituality is a tradition: it has a past; it has historical and biblical roots;
it boasts a communion of saints.”
In further works, Fox develops the conversation between western spirituality and other traditions (see
One River, Many Wells, ISBN-13: 978-1585423262); and with science (see Natural Grace, by Matthew
Fox and Rupert Sheldrake ISBN-13: 978-0385483599); and with the passionate creativity of art (see
Creativity, ISBN 1-58542-178-2).
The term “Creation Spirituality” was named for Fox in 1967 by the French Theologian MD Chenu, with
whom he studied at L’Institute Catholique in Paris. Fox’s teaching and writing career led him to
discover more deeply the common threads in countless traditions, and the principles of Creation
Spirituality came to be named as Fox further explored and articulated the tradition. “As a movement,
Creation Spirituality becomes an amazing gathering place, a kind of watering hole for person whose
passion has been touched by the issues of our day – deep ecologists, ecumenists, artists, native peoples,
justice activists, feminists, male liberationists, gay and lesbian peoples, animal liberationists, scientists
seeking to reconnect science and wisdom, people of prophetic faith traditions – all these find in the
Creation Spirituality movement a common language and a common ground on which to stand.”
Creation Spirituality derives from the oldest tradition in the Bible (the J source) and it is the Wisdom
Tradition in the Hebrew Bible–the tradition that scholars agree was the tradition of the historical
Jesus. Thus creation spirituality brings together the root sources of Christian spirituality (along with
other world traditions), those being 1) the historical Jesus and 2) the Cosmic Christ. These represent the
prophetic and the mystical roots of Christianity.
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References: Matthew Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality (Santa Fe: Bear and
Company, 1983), 12-16.
ECKHART @ ERFURT RETREAT
June 16- 21, 2019 ERFURT, GERMANY
Register @ matthewfox.org
Join Matthew Fox and Others for a UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY to study the great medieval
mystic MEISTER ECKHART in Erfurt, Germany in the very rooms where he lived and taught
and prayed as a Dominican!
Meister Eckhart may well be the most significant mystic-prophet of the West. His influence has been
vast, including Karl Marx and Martin Burber, Carl Jung and Thomas Merton, John of the Cross and
Dorothee Soelle and Eckhart Toelle. His deep insights ring true to Buddhists, Sufis, Hindus, Jews and
indigenous peoples. What better place to study him than in his own Dominican house where he lived
“longer and more continuously than anywhere else during his lifetime,” according to historian Joel
Harrington.
Predigerkirche in Erfurt was a Dominican priory and church in the middle ages. Its Gothic church was
still under construction during Eckhart’s time, the choir and high stone altar only fully roofed a year or
two before his joining the Dominicans at 15 years of age.
Now Lutheran, the church and priory went amazingly undamaged for 700 years including the two world
wars. Updated and renovated, it provides a most special space of morphic resonance and deep memory
in which to listen deeply to what Eckhart is telling us today amidst our struggles for eco-justice, social
justice and an evolutionary leap towards a deeper consciousness for our species.
Our week will consist of body prayer in the mornings followed by teachings and discussions on Eckhart
by Matthew Fox; and art as meditation classes in the afternoons. Participants will choose for art as med
either “Moving to Eckhart’s Words” led by dance instructor Meshi Chavez; or “Dreams and Journaling
with Eckhart” led by Jungian therapist and author Steve Herrmann.
An optional Process Seminar will be offered daily after art as meditation by Claudia Picardi.
Private meditation time in the Dominican choir stalls where Eckhart prayed is also encouraged.
The group will design and celebrate an “Eckhart Mass” on Thursday evening at the altar where
Eckhart celebrated Mass regularly as prior.
Also in Erfurt is the Augustinian church where Martin Luther was ordained a priest. And two hours away is Wittenburg where Luther pounded his theses that launched the Reformation movement and we will visit those sites as well. For more information and to add your name to the list, contact Dennis @ 510.835.0655, or email [email protected]. For more details, visit www.matthewfox.org
Join us for learning, dancing,
dreaming, sharing, journaling,
body prayer and meditation in
the very spaces where Eckhart
taught and prayed in the
14th century!
Register by October 15, 2018 for
special retreat price of $1250.
EXTENDED TO DEC 31, 2018
$1400 Before Jan 30, 2019
$1600 After Jan 30, 2019
The Eckhart @ Erfurt Retreat is
limited to 35 retreat participants.
Register @ www.matthewfox.org
Instructors
Matthew Fox has been called “perhaps the greatest writer on Meister Eckhart that has ever existed.” Like Eckhart, he was a
Dominican and like Eckhart he was condemned by a corrupt papacy. He has written three books on Eckhart and 33 other
books on Creation Spirituality including three on Hildegard of Bingen. His books have been translated into 70 languages. He
holds a doctorate in the history and theology of spiritualities from the Institut catholique de Paris.
Steven Herrmann, PhD, MFT is a Jungian psychotherapist and scholar who has been studying the “Master” for forty years.
He studied with the former Dominican monk William Everson who was his faculty adviser at UC Santa Cruz for his Senior
Thesis “Meister Eckhart: On the Recollection of the Self.” He has taught on Eckhart, Jungian literary criticism, American
poetry, transpersonal psychology, vocational dreams, and led groups on Jungian dream work and journaling. Herrmann is the
author of the books William Everson: The Shaman’s Call; Walt Whitman; Spiritual Democracy; and Emily Dickinson: A
Medicine Woman for Our Times.
Meshi Chavez is a choreographer and movement teacher based in Portland, OR. He began his teaching career in Soul Motion
TM, and then got seduced by his pursuit of the dance form called Butoh. He is a student of Natsu Nakajima (the first female to
dance this form) and Denise Fujiwara. Meshi is co-founder of Momentum Conscious Movement. His approach to presence in
the body is greatly influenced by his 20 years of working with Native Spiritual leaders and ceremonies.
Claudia Picardi will oversee the workshop and also lead an hour-long process group. She holds a master’s in Transpersonal
Psychology from ITP and a Doctorate in Computer Science. As vice president of the Creation Spirituality Organization in
Italy, she leads workshops on re-activating the imagination through fairy tales, myths and sacred texts. This one hour gathering
is optional and follows the Art as Meditation classes. The learning of each day will be processed and shared via images, words,
and impressions of the participants. Comments on Fox’s recent book, Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times: “Fox has given us yet another radioactive, stunning work. Every chapter is a true, clear, and swift revelation.” –Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism “[Fox] not only gives us his beloved spiritual father as a living presence for our lives but also brings us a whole rainbow of mystic-warriors as companions on the way.” --Joanna Macy, author of Active Hope
defines the principles through which we operate and the values we strive to fulfill.
The Order of the Sacred Earth is ready to launch! Here is how you can get involved:
• Take the vow to be the best lover and defender of the Earth that you can be.
• Begin an OSE POD. Talk about the Order with others where you live and create a vow-‐taking ritual or event of your own.
• Visit our website to learn more at www.orderofthesacredearth. org
• Sign up for our mailing list on the website to stay connected.
• Donate to our cause on our Generosity website: http://bit.ly/OSEdonate. With a $25 donation you will receive a copy of the Special Edition of Order of the Sacred Earth, published by Monkfish Publishing.
• Read the book and create study groups to discuss it.
• Write to us! Share your story about what you do, and how you are cultivating change in your communities. Or, tell us about another community/organization who is participating in change-‐making.
Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Wildfires. Drought. Climate Change. Terrorism. Genocide. Economic collapse. Governmental corruption. In the past year alone, historic natural and human-‐made
disasters have devastated nations on nearly every continent of the Earth, our home. We don’t need
to tell you this. The question is —
How do you respond?
We are offering a challenge, an opportunity and a vision: The Order of the Sacred Earth
(OSE)
• The Order of the Sacred Earth is both a community and a movement, offering a new and vital point of connection and context for the many life-‐affirming movements of these times.
• The Order is radically inclusive, welcoming people of all races, genders, nationalities, classes, and abilities in the shared mission of loving and defending the Earth, our home.
• The Order is co-‐creative, and emergent, rooted in an interspiritual context that welcomes people of all faith traditions, and those following none.
• The Order draws upon ancient wisdom traditions, rediscovering them for our time and connecting them to a personal commitment to the planet and a global/local network of self-‐organizing communities.
