Creativity

by Matthew Fox

Hardcover, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

291.22

Genres

Religion & Spirituality

Publication

Tarcher (2002), 256 pages

Description

The author of Original Blessing explores how the highest communion with the Divine can be found right at our fingertips in the simplest expressions of human creativity. Drawn from a sermon that has electrified listeners, here is a concise, powerful meditation on the nature of creativity from Episcopal priest and radical theologian Matthew Fox. Creativity is Fox at his most dynamic: It is immensely practical and leaves the reader with a message to put into action in life. Fox tantalizingly suggests that the most prayerful, most spiritually powerful act a person can undertake is to create, at his or her own level, with a consciousness of the place from which that gift arises.

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LibraryThing member shannonkearns

a couple of quotes i liked:quoting walter brueggemann: "Every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. it is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only

thinkable one." (page 102)quoting pablo neruda: "all paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, in order to reach forth to the enhanced place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song-but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of being in common destiny." (page 171)

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LibraryThing member Sullywriter

A fascinating, insightful meditation on the spiritual dimensions of creativity and a practical discussion on ways to live a more creative life.

LibraryThing member stpetersucc

Matt Fox is a pilgrim who seeks a path into the church of tomorrow. Countless numbers will be happy to follow his lead. Drawn from a sermon that has electrified listeners, here is a concise, powerful meditation on the nature of creativity from Episcopal priest and radical theologian Matthew Fox.

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