| Description |
348 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-348). |
| Contents |
Introduction: Two questions apropos of wisdom and human/Earth survival -- PATH I. BEFRIENDING CREATION : THE VIA POSITIVA -- Dabhar : The creative energy (Word) of God -- Creation as blessing and the recovery of the art of savoring pleasure -- Humility as earthiness : Our earthiness as a blessing along with passion and simplicity -- Cosmic, universalist : harmony, beauty, justice as cosmic energies -- Trust : A psychology of trust and expansion -- Panentheism : Experiencing the diaphanous and transparent God -- Our royal personhood : Our dignity and responsibility for building the Kingdom/Queendom of God. Creation theology as a Kingdom/Queendom theology -- Realized eschatology : a new sense of time -- Holiness as cosmic hospitality : Creation ecstasies shared constitute the Holy prayer of thanksgiving and praise -- Sin, salvation, Christ from the perspective of the Via Positiva : A theology of creation and incarnation -- PATH II. BEFRIENDING DARKNESS, LETTING GO AND LETTING BE: THE VIE NEGATIVA -- Emptying: Letting go of images and letting silence be silence -- Being emptied: Letting pain be pain: Kenosis -- Sinking into nothingness and letting nothingness be nothingness -- Sin, salvation, Christ from the perspective of the via negativa: A theology of the Cross -- PATH III BEFRIENDING CREATIVITY, BEFRIENDING OUR DIVINITY: THE VIA CREATIVA -- From cosmos to cosmogenesis: Our divination as images of God who are also co-creators -- Art as mediation: creativity and birthing as meditation, centering, a return to the source -- Faith as trust of images: discipline--yes! Ascetism--No! -- Dialetical, trinitarian: how our lives as works of art spiral beauty back into the world -- God as mother, God as child: Ourselves as mothers of God and birthers of God's Son -- Sin, salvation, Christ from the perspective of the Via Creativa: A theology of resurrection -- PATH IV BEFRIENDING NEW CREATION: COMPASSION, CELEBRATION, EROTIC JUSTICE, THE VIA TRANSFORMATIVA -- New creation: images of God in motion creating a global civiliztion -- Faith as trusting the prophetic call of the Holy Spirit -- A spirituality of the Anawim: Feminists, third world, lay, and other oppressed peoples -- Compassion: Interdependence, celebration and the recovery of eros -- Compassion: Interdependence and erotic justice -- Sin, salvation, Christ from the perspective of the Via Transformativa: A theology of the Holy Spirit -- Appendix A: Toward a family tree of creation-centered spiritualtiy -- Appendix B: Fall/redemption and creation-centered spirituality compared at a glance -- Appendix C: An annotated bibliography of creation centered spirituality -- Footnotes |
| Summary |
Matthew Fox begins his book with two questions: "In our quest for wisdom and survival, does the human race require a new religious paradigm?" and "Does the creation-centered spiritual tradition offer such a paradigm?" His answer to both these questions is yes, and he goes on to show us all the undiscovered persons, paths, and themes of the creation-centered tradition, a tradition that predates by many centuries the "fall/redemption" ideologies of organized Western religions and has only been kept alive by artists, poets, mystics, and others within and without churches who secretly approached their faith from the deep, ecstatic, creation-centered tradition--but until now had no way to express it openly, or with understanding.--from back cover. |
| Subject |
Spiritual life -- Catholic Church.
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Spiritual life -- Catholic Church.
(OCoLC)fst01130109
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| ISBN |
0939680076 (pbk.) |
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9780939680078 (pbk.) |
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