Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Lessons for Transforming Evil in Soul and Society Matthew Fox,
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 0609805800
DDC: 291
Edition: Paperback; 2000-06-27
Summary:
In Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh, visionary theologian
and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology that
fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and
points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one
another, and all of nature. Through its marriage of spirit and flesh,
Fox's Theology of Spirit sets forth a visionary but practical
mysticism that lays out a blueprint for social transformation. In
this book, Matthew Fox dissects the roots of our culture's spiritual
malaise and offers Creation Spirituality and a Theology of Spirit as
the "medicine" for our society's deep spiritual "wounds." He shows
how, contrary to mainstream church teachings, flesh is the grounding
of spirit, and how spirit and flesh are entwined with each other in a
felicitous and spiritually nourishing bond. He outlines a Theology of
Spirit, an approach to the fusing of spirit and flesh which has been
underdeveloped in Western thought. His cosmology stresses the need
for diversity, the revelatory power of Nature, and the imperative of
cooperation. Fox draws together the wisdom of East and West on the
subject of human destructiveness by taking Thomas Aquinas's
definition of sin as "misdirected love" and ushering us through
parallels between the Eastern teachings of the seven chakras and the
Western teachings of the seven capital sins. In doing so, he responds
to Martin Buber's call to "deprive evil of its power" not by
"extirpating the evil urge, but by reuniting it to the good."
Psychologist M. Scott Peck has said that humanity's naming of evil
"is still in the primitive stage." With this book, Fox ushers us
beyond rudimentary naming and places our capacity for evil in the
fuller context of our touching the natural beauty of our physical
world, the complex texture of our emotional lives, and the splendid
depths of our spiritual center.In Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of
the Flesh Matthew Fox has created his most ambitious and profound
book. The text crackles with his intelligence and wit, deftly moving
the reader into an examination of our world and our perceptions about
it and ourselves, expanding our minds and showing us paths of thought
that you would swear were not there before you turned the page.
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