This week Radio Curious visits with Matthew Fox, theologian and author of 28 books including a recent publication, "The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine."
In 1988, rather than comply with an ecclesiastical summons issued by then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, to move to Chicago and give up his work on Creation Spirituality in Oakland California, Matthew Fox, a Dominican Priest, left the Dominican Order, remained in Oakland, and established the University of Creation Spirituality. Matthew Fox is the author of 28 books and most recently published âThe Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine,â and is our guest on this edition of Radio Curious.
Matthew Fox first visited Radio Curious in 1999 when his book âSins of the Spirit, Blessing of the Flesh: Lesson for Transforming Evil, in Soul and Society,â was published. When we came across âThe Hidden Spirituality Men,â the latent curiosity of Radio Curious about spirituality was awakened.
Fox and I spoke by visited again, by phone from his home in Oakland, California on January 11, 2011. Our conversation, which explores male and female spirituality, began with Matthew Fox distinguishing spirituality, faith, religion and dogma.
The book Matthew Fox recommends is âWalt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy and the World Soul,â By Steven B. Herrmann.