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Fox argues that our culture has concentrated far too much on transgressions of the flesh while failing to take into account its sacredness. Artfully weaving together the wisdom of East and West, he considers Thomas Aquinass definition of sin as misdirected love and applies parallels between the Eastern teachings of the seven chakras and the Western teachings of the seven capital sins. Fox explains how the chakras teach us to direct the love-energies we all possess and proposes seven positive precepts for living a full and spirited life. He invites us to change the way we think about sin and asserts that we can combat and transform evil through love, generosity, letting go, and creativity.
Crafting a blueprint for social change, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh points the way toward a deeper and more compassionate way to live while eloquently revealing the means to confront evil both within and without.
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Praise for Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh
A sweeping, enticing vision, pulsing with Foxs unrelenting passion.
San Francisco Chronicle
A big step toward a new, promising experience of human scale and sacred context.
Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul
A fine, updated, multifaceted take on the concept of sin.
Vivencio in Goodreads
Read it three times, amazing!
Christopher Collins in Goodreads
A new theology that reevaluates fundamental Christian methods perceiving spirit and flesh by denying any hard-fast distinction between the two.... It points the way to a time when we might learn to live out our confession that Gods incarnation is the reason for our faith.
Michael Joseph Gross, author and journalist
Readers of Foxs earlier works will be waiting for this, and collectors staying current on comparative religions, how-to guides, and general-interest titles in spirituality will find it essential.
Library Journal
BOOKS BY MATTHEW FOX
Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times
Letters to Pope Francis: Rebuilding a Church with Justice and Compassion
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation (with Adam Bucko)
Hildegard of Bingen, a Saint for Our Times: Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century
The Popes War: Why Ratzingers Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and What Can Be Saved
Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations
The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human
A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality & the Transformation of Christianity
Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet
Prayer: A Radical Response to Life (formerly On Becoming a Musical, Mystical Bear)
One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing From Global Faiths
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Lessons for Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
The Physics of Angels with biologist Rupert Sheldrake
Natural Grace with biologist Rupert Sheldrake
Passion for Creation, The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart (formerly Breakthrough)
Wrestling With the Prophets: Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life
The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood For Our Time
Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and The Birth of a Global Renaissance
Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen
Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Meditations with Meister Eckhart
A Spirituality Named Compassion
Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest
Hildegard of Bingens Book of Divine Works, Songs & Letters
Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to Sensual, Prophetic Spirituality
Religion USA: Religion and Culture by Way of TIME Magazine
In the Beginning There Was Joy (children book, illustrated)
Western Spirituality: Historical Roots, Ecumenical Routes, editor
MATTHEW FOX
North Atlantic Books
Berkeley, California
Copyright 2016 by Matthew Fox. All rights reserved. No portion of this book, except for brief review, may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the written permission of the publisher. For information contact North Atlantic Books.
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society is sponsored and published by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences (dba North Atlantic Books), an educational nonprofit based in Berkeley, California, that collaborates with partners to develop cross-cultural perspectives, nurture holistic views of art, science, the humanities, and healing, and seed personal and global transformation by publishing work on the relationship of body, spirit, and nature.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Fox, Matthew, 1940
Sins of the spirit, blessings of the flesh : transforming evil in soul and society / Matthew Fox.
Revised [edition]. | Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, 2016. | Includes .
LCCN 2015034925| ISBN 9781623170189 ((pbk.)) | ISBN 9781623170196 ((ebook))
LCSH: Deadly sins. | Chakras. | Good and evil.
LCC BV4626 .F68 2016 | DDC 233dc23
This book is dedicated to the many wonderful teachers of my life, some in books, some in the flesh, all in the spirit.
Included are Buck Ghosthorse and Jose Hobday, M. D. Chenu and Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme and M. C. Richards, Clarissa Pinkola Ests and Thomas Aquinas, Martin Buber and Erich Fromm, Howard Thurman, Joanna Macy and Diane Ackerman.
And many more including those acknowledged in the footnotes.
I am grateful to all those authors and thinkers through the centuries who have thought about the topics of goodness and transgression. A special thanks to those who are developing a new, grace-based cosmology today including an appreciation of our holy bodies. I have tried to acknowledge all these thinkers by taking their thought seriously in this book and by recognizing their contributions in the text and in the footnotes. Hopefully, by presenting their research in the light of the history of spirituality, the spirit-dimension of their deep work will receive the attention it deserves.
I am deeply grateful to Deepak Chopra for his thoughtful and timely foreword to this book, written amidst a very demanding schedule no doubt. And to Rupert Sheldrake for bringing this book to Deepaks attention.
Also I am grateful to my agent, Ned Leavitt, whose encouragement has never faltered, and to my editors at Harmony Books, Shaye Areheart and Leslie Meredith. Shayes support in particular has been invaluable. A special thanks to the Eugene Yee family who lent me their summer home as a retreat in nature where I was able to study and write significant parts of this work. I am grateful also to Mel Bricker for his assistance in tracking down permissions and to Dennis Edwards for his years of faithful support, and Phila Hoopes, Mary Plaster and Susan Coppage Evans for their work in encouraging the Creation Spirituality movement. To Doug Reil at North Atlantic Books and my editor Louis Swaim, and to Andrew Harvey, for his encouragement to republish this book, I also acknowledge my appreciation.
8. Misdirected Love in the First Chakra
Acedia
9. Misdirected Love in the Second Chakra
Control, Addiction, Lust
10. Misdirected Love in the Third Chakra
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