Praise for Sheer Joy
Praise for Sheer Joy
“Seizing Aquinas by scapular and capuche, Fox hauls him point by point through the fundamental issues of our day. The introduction is the finest thing on Aquinas I have ever read.”
—William Everson, author of The Integral Years and The Residual Years
“This is an important book and will give much pleasure to those looking for deep and richer philosophy.”
—New Humanity
“In this book, the teaching of Aquinas come through with a fulness and an insight that has never been represented in English before, and that moreover is shown to have a vital message for the world today. … Sheer Joy is a work of major importance not only for the church and the Dominican order but also for the wider world, which is looking for a philosophy that can act as a guide in the moral, social, and political problems of the world today.”
—Father Bede Griffiths, author of A New Vision of Reality and Return to the Center
“The sheer joy of the shared commitment of Aquinas and Fox to creation spirituality is contagious and pervades almost every page of this big volume.”
—National Catholic Reporter
“Aquinas was what we would now call a holistic thinker, but he went much further than most modern holists in recognizing the all-pervasive influence of the spiritual realm….Until now, Aquinas’s insights have been hidden behind a fog of scholastic and neoscholastic commentary and interpretation. This book changes all that. Matthew Fox allows Aquinas to speak for himself, and at the same time the dialogue enables the relevance of what he says to come across with great clarity. After more than seven centuries, we can meet Aquinas again and hear what he has to say to us.”
—Rupert Sheldrake, author of A New Science of Life and Science and Spiritual Practices