Matthew Fox (b. 1940) is an internationally acclaimed theologian who was a member of the Dominican Order for 34 years. He holds a doctorate, summa cum laude, in the History and Theology of Spirituality from the Institut Catholique de Paris. He has been working for forty years to recover the ancient and earth-centered creation spirituality tradition of Christianity. Fox has taught at Stanford University, Vancouver School of Theology, the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies among other places. He is currently visiting scholar with the Academy for the Love of Learning headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is author of 32 books which have sold more than 1.5 million copies in 56 languages. Fox is recipient of the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award of which other recipients have included the Dalai Lama, Mother Theresa, Rosa Parks and Maya Angelou. He is also a recipient of the Ghandi-King-Ikeda Award from Morehouse College International Chapel that is awarded for dedication to peace, unity, non-violence and justice.
"This highly charged autobiography of a priestly life will stand as
a lasting memorial to the difficulty of maintaining certain
articles of faith and dogma at a time of shifting cultural
paradigms. Fox's portrait of himself as he realizes that the truth
he is pursuing is incompatible with the truth that his church can
allow him to believe is likely to become a classic." —Publishers
Weekly
“‘Hearing Matt Fox talk, I feel less lonely in the universe,’ said
a street priest fifteen years ago. We should all feel less lonely
now with this exhilarating, deeply companionable book in our hands.
The unfolding story of this irrepressible spiritual revolutionary
enlivens the mind and emboldens the heart—must reading for anyone
interested in courage, creativity, and the future of religion.”
—Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self
“Traditionally, when big government in the church tries to silence
a good soul, it indicates that the soul is often far ahead of the
times. Matthew Fox is such a person. He writes simply, powerfully,
about his life as a visionary. He continues now, as before, to give
out the twenty-first-century keys to the kingdom.”
—Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD., author of Women Who Run with the
Wolves
“Matthew Fox has created a new mythic context for leading us out of
our contemporary religious and spiritual confusion into a new
clarity of mind and peace of soul, by affirming rather than
abandoning any of our traditional beliefs.”
—Thomas Berry, author of The Great Work
“Matthew Fox is one of our greatest and most essential
teachers. In his updated Confessions he takes us on a journey
into the depths of his heart and mind and shares the fierce ordeals
and saving revelations that have shaped his pioneering
work. Read this unique book and share it with others.”
—Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism
“Jung developed the idea that when the unconscious of any tribe,
group, or community, is disturbed in its collective functioning
‘there is always a medicine man who has a dream concerning the
matter.’ Matthew Fox is such a man. He recognizes that
healing is a natural part of the via transformativia and
that it is a priestly function to contribute, through compassion
and social justice, to the healing of the collectivity.”
—Steven Herrmann, PhD, MFT, author of Spiritual Democracy: The
Wisdom of Early American Visionaries for the Journey Forward
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