Notes
1 M.-D. Chenu, Faith and Theology (New York: Macmillan, 1968), 33.
2 Matthew Fox, Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2020), 466.
3 See Matthew Fox, “Meister Eckhart on the Four-Fold Path of a Creation-Centered Spirituality,” in Matthew Fox, Western Spirituality: Historical Roots, Ecumenical Routes (Santa Fe, NM: 1981), 215–48. The Four Paths are developed further in Matthew Fox, Original Blessing (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2000).
4 Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, trans. Stephen Mitchell (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1988), no. 38.
5 Matthew Fox, Passion for Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2000), 312.
6 Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Young, 1951), 58.
7 Abraham Joshua Heschel, I Asked for Wonder (New York: Crossroad, 1987), 2–3.
8 Qtd. in William Hermanns, Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man (Brookline Village, MA: Branden Press, 1983), 68.
9 See Matthew Fox, The Reinvention of Work (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994), 296-308.
10 Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (New York: Bell Tower, 1988), 166.
11 See Matthew Fox, Original Blessing.
12 Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (New York: Bell Tower, 1999).
13 Rosemary Radford Ruether, “Patristic Spirituality and the Experience of Women in the Early Church,” in Matthew Fox, ed., Western Spirituality), 145.
14 Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), 258.
15 Claude Tresmontant, A Study of Hebrew Thought (New York: Desclée, 1960), 47, 100.
16 M. C. Richards, Imagine Inventing Yellow: New and Selected Poems of M. C. Richards (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1991), 40–41.
17 Luisah Teish, Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals (New York: HarperCollins, 1985).
18 I give a shout out also to Linda Neale, The Power of Ceremony: Restoring the Sacred in Our Selves, Our Families, Our Communities (Portland, OR: Eagle Spirit Press, 2011).
19 See Matthew Fox, Naming the Unnameable: 89 Wonderful and Useful Names for God … Including the Unnameable God (Pawcatuck, CT: Little Bound Books, 2018).
20 Estelle Frankel, The Wisdom of Not Knowing: Discovering a Life of Wonder by Embracing Uncertainty (Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017), 1.
21 Cited in Hermanns, Einstein and the Poet, 69.
22 For his commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, Sheer Joy, pp. 502–14.
23 bell hooks, All About Love (New York: William Morrow, 2001), 33.
24 Hermanns, Einstein and the Poet, 135.
25 See https://www.heartmath.org/science.
26 See M.-D. Chenu, “Body and Body Politic in the Creation Spirituality of Thomas Aquinas,” in Fox, ed., Western Spirituality, 215–48, for a substantive discussion on this important topic.
27 See Claudio Naranjo and Robert E. Ornstein, On the Psychology of Meditation (New York: Viking, 1972), 91. See also Matthew Fox, “Deep Ecumenism, Ecojustice, and Art as Meditation,” in Wrestling with the Prophets (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1995), 215–42.
28 See Suzi Gablik, “Art for Earth’s Sake,” Resurgence & Ecologist 202 (September–October 2000). http://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/1537178/725d17
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29 See Matthew Fox, “On Desentimentalizing Spirituality,” in Wrestling with the Prophets, 297–316.
30 See Matthew Fox, “Thomas Aquinas: Mystic and Prophet of the Environment,” in ibid., 105–14.
31 Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can’t Wait (New York: Signet, 2000), 93–94. He also cites St. Augustine, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich in this section of his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
32 Heschel, The Prophets, 258.
33 C. G. Jung, “Psychological Types,” in The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Bollingen Series 20 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971), 6:§93.
34 See Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2016).
35 Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Abraham Skorka, On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the 21st Century (New York: Image, 2013), 10.
36 See Frédéric Martel, In the Closet in the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy (London: Continuum, 2019), 26–32. See also my “Review of Frederic Martel’s In the Closet of the Vatican,” Tikkun (June 24, 2019): https://www.tikkun.org/review-of-frederic-martels-in-the-closet-of-the-vatican/.
37 See Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh, 183–374, where I compare the seven capital sins with the seven chakras.
38 Cited in Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968), 168.
39 See Matthew Fox, Prayer: A Radical Response to Life (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2001), 49–116, and Fox, The Reinvention of Work.
40 Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Crossing Press Feminist Series (New York: Crossing Press, 2007), 44.