The Beloved Will Guide You: St. John of the Cross and the Triple Dark Night of Our Times
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Fox recognizes some of John's greatest poems including the legendary “Dark Night” and "Spiritual Canticle" as prison literature, part of his prophetic vocation or the Via Transformativa path of Creation Spirituality, the struggle for justice. The Via Creativa also proves paramount since John is considered one of the best poets in the Spanish language to this day. The Via Positiva is stunningly present in his poems as is the Via Negativa and John’s profound sense of the apophatic divinity that names the ineffable darkness and mystery of Divinity. Matthew Fox brings all of this alive for spiritual seekers today and brings John of the Cross into fresh, immediate relevance. The four paths reset John’s spiritual gifts and genius just when we need them the most: as we find ourselves in a triple dark night—that of soul, society (democracy), and Mother Earth beset by global warming at the hands of humanity.
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Matthew Fox is the author of 45 books on Spirituality and Culture translated into 90 languages. He has been calling people of spirit and conscience into the Creation Spirituality lineage for over 50 years. His innovative education models and many lectures and retreats have ignited an international movement to awaken people to be mystics, prophets and contemplative activists who honor and defend the earth and work for eco, racial, and gender justice. He has helped rediscover Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich and Thomas Aquinas as pre-modern mystics and prophets. Fox holds a doctorate in the history and theology of spirituality from the Institut Catholique de Paris and was a member of the Dominican Order for 34 years before being expelled by Cardinal Ratzinger. He is now an Episcopal priest and founder of the Cosmic Mass which brings dance and rave elements into Liturgy and co-founder of the Order of the Sacred Earth. He was founder of the University of Creation Spirituality and ICCS in Chicago and Oakland, California. He lives in the Bay Area and is a visiting scholar at the Academy of the Love of Learning. Among his awards are the Peace and Conscience Award (other recipients being the Dalai Lama, Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa) and the Gandhi-King-Ikeda Award at Morehouse College, the Humanities Awards from the Sufi International Association of Sufism and the Tikkun Ethics Award.
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