A Way to God: Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey

ISBN: 1608684202

Author: Fox, Matthew

Condition: New

This powerful book was prompted by an invitation Matthew Fox received to speak on the centennial of Thomas Mertons birth. Fox says that much of the trouble hes gotten into such as being expelled from the Dominican Order in 1993, after thirty-four years, by Cardinal Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict) was because of Merton, who prompted Fox to attend the Institut Catholique in Paris to undertake a doctoral program in spirituality.Fox reimmersed himself in Mertons journals, poetry, and religious writings, finding that Mertons marriage of mysticism and prophecy, contemplation and action closely paralleled that of Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century mystic who inspired Foxs own Creation Spirituality. In A Way to God, Fox explores Mertons pioneering work in interfaith, his essential teachings on mixing contemplation and action, and how the vision of Meister Eckhart profoundly influenced Merton in what Fox calls his Creation Spirituality journey.