Passion for Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart

by Matthew Fox

Overview

• Matthew Fox's comprehensive translation of Meister Eckhart's sermons is a meeting of true prophets across hundreds of years that results in a spirituality for the new millennium.

• A brilliant interpretation of Eckhart's teachings on creation spirituality.

Passion for Creation (formerly Breakthrough) is Matthew Fox's comprehensive translation of and original commentary on the critical German and Latin texts of 37 sermons by Meister Eckhart, the noted 14th-century Dominican priest, preacher, and mystic. The goodness of creation, the holiness of all things, the divine blood in each person, the need to let go and let be—these are among Eckhart's themes, themes that the best-selling author Matthew Fox brilliantly interprets and explains for today's reader.

Passion for Creation will be embraced by theologians, students, and all seekers of truth. It will be especially welcomed by those interested in creation spirituality, which Eckhart advocated six centuries ago and which Matthew Fox has promoted as a spiritual path for the new millennium. Simply put, this book is a meeting of two prophets across hundreds of years. The outcome of that meeting is a fount of wisdom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892818013
Publisher:	Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Matthew Fox was a member of the Dominican Order in good standing for 34 years until he was expelled by former Pope Joseph Ratzinger, who was a cardinal and chief inquisitor at the time. Matthew Fox is the founder of Wisdom University (formerly the University of Creation Spirituality) and the foremost proponent of Creation Spirituality, based on the mystical teachings of early Christian visionaries such as Hildegard von Bingen, Meister Eckhart, and Saint Thomas Aquinas. He is the author of 26 books, including Original Blessing and The Coming of the Cosmic Christ. In 2019, Matthew Fox was cited as one of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World" according to Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Path One: Creation
Sermon One: All Creatures are Words of God
Sermon Two: Creation: A Flowing Out but Remaining Within
Sermon Three: How Creatures are God and How God Becomes Where Creatures Express Him
Sermon Four: The Holiness of Being
Sermon Five: How All Creatures Share an Equality of Being
Sermon Six: The Greatness of the Human Person
Sermon Seven: The Bigness of the Human Person
Sermon Eight: This is Spirituality: Waking Up
Sermon Nine: Waking Up to the Nearness of God's Kingdom
Sermon Ten: A God Who Rejoices and Suffers, Blesses and Consoles

Path Two: Letting Go and Letting Be
Sermon Eleven: Divinity's Dark Side
Sermon Twelve: Sinking Eternally into God
Sermon Thirteen: Outside God There is Nothing but Nothing
Sermon Fourteen: Letting God be God in You
Sermon Fifteen: How a Radical Letting Go Becomes a True Letting Be
Sermon Sixteen: Letting the Will Go
Sermon Seventeen: Letting the Intellect Go and Experiencing Pure Ignorance
Sermon Eighteen: Letting Go of Intellect Creates A Transformation of Knowledge
Sermon Nineteen: Wisdom and Fiery Love—Not Repression—are the Results of Letting Go
Sermon Twenty: How Letting Go and Letting Be are to Bear Fruit

Path Three: Breakthrough and Giving Birth to Self and God
Sermon Twenty-One: Three Births: Ours, God's, and Ourselves as God's Children
Sermon Twenty-Two: Our Divinity and God's Divinity: To Be God is to Give Birth
Sermon Twenty-Three: We are Children of God and Mothers of God
Sermon Twenty-Four: We Are Other Christs
Sermon Twenty-Five: Our Divinity: The Reason God Became a Human Being
Sermon Twenty-Six: The Holy Spirit, Like a Rapid River, Divinizes Us
Sermon Twenty-Seven: How All Creatures Experience the Divine Repose
Sermon Twenty-Eight: Where the Soul is, There is God
Sermon Twenty-Nine: Be You Creative as God is Creative

Path Four: The New Creation: Compassion and Social Justice
Sermon Thirty: Be Compassionate as Your Creator in Heaven is Compassionate
Sermon Thirty-One: Compassion is an ocean—The Mystical Side to Compassion
Sermon Thirty-Two: Driving Merchant Mentalities from Our Souls: Economics and Compassion
Sermon Thirty-Three: Justice, the Work of Compassion
Sermon Thirty-Four: When Our Work Becomes a Spiritual Work Working in the World
Sermon Thirty-Five: Bread is Given us for Others, on Account of Others, and With Others—Especially the Indigent
Sermon Thirty-Six: Everyone an Aristocrat, Everyone a Royal Person
Sermon Thirty-Seven: Compassion as Celebration

Notes

Index of Scriptural References

Index of Spirituality Themes

Cross References to Sermons Translated in this Volume

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