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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh, Revised Edition: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society Paperback - 2016
by Fox, Matthew
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- very good
- Paperback
A visionary theologian and bestselling author returns with his most ambitious, profound, and controversial book yet as he examines the roots of our culture's spiritual malaise.
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Details
- Title Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh, Revised Edition: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
- Author Fox, Matthew
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 504
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher North Atlantic Books
- Date 2016
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR009899216
- ISBN 9781623170189 / 1623170184
- Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Topical: New Age
- Library of Congress subjects Good and evil, Deadly sins
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015034925
- Dewey Decimal Code 233
From the jacket flap
In this book, Matthew Fox dissects the roots of our culture's spiritual malaise and offers Creation Spirituality and a Theology of Spirit as the "medicine" for our society's deep spiritual "wounds." He shows how, contrary to mainstream church teachings, flesh is the grounding of spirit, and how spirit and flesh are entwined with each other in a felicitous and spiritually nourishing bond. He outlines a Theology of Spirit, an approach to the fusing of spirit and flesh which has been underdeveloped in Western thought. His cosmology stresses the need for diversity, the revelatory power of Nature, and the imperative of cooperation.
Fox draws together the wisdom of East and West on the subject of human destructiveness by taking Thomas Aquinas's definition of sin as "misdirected love" and ushering us through parallels between the Eastern teachings of the seven chakras and the Western teachings of the seven capital sins. In doing so, he responds to Martin Buber's call to "deprive evil of its power" not by "extirpating the evil urge, but by reuniting it to the good." Psychologist M. Scott Peck has said that humanity's naming of evil "is still in the primitive stage." With this book, Fox ushers us beyond rudimentary naming and placesour capacity for evil in the fuller context of our touching the natural beauty of our physical world, the complex texture of our emotional lives, and the splendid depths of our spiritual center.
In Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh Matthew Fox has created his most ambitious and profound book. The text crackles with his intelligence and wit, deftly moving the reader into an examination of our world and our perceptions about it and ourselves, expanding our minds and showing us paths of thought that you would swear were not there before you turned the page.