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Una sfida alla tradizione che incentra il cristianesimo sul peccato originale e che l'ha ridotto a religione pessimistica, patriarcale e nel passato anche violenta. Un pensiero che fa rivivere la grande mistica medievale di Ildegarda di Bingen e Meister Eckhart. Una visione che, lungi dal concepire la natura come corrotta, vede Dio in tutto il creato. Una prospettiva che abbatte le rigide separazioni anima-corpo, sacro-profano, maschio-femmina, Dio-mondo. Una Via Positiva che è innamoramento e benedizione originaria. La tesi sostenuta da Matthew Fox, ex frate domenicano espulso dall'ordine nel 1993 dall'allora cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, è che il sentimento dominante della spiritualità non deve essere un rattristato senso di colpa verso Dio, bensì un positivo senso di riconoscenza verso il cosmo. Si tratta di un mutamento di paradigma paragonabile a una vera e propria "rivoluzione copernicana della religione". Il saggio inaugura la collana "Campo dei fiori", diretta da Elido Fazi e Vito Mancuso, un luogo di libera ricerca spirituale, aperto al dialogo interreligioso, che intende promuovere una spiritualità come libertà, fiducia nella vita, creatività, comunione con la natura e con gli esseri umani. Introduzione di Vito Mancuso. Prefazione dell'autore all'edizione italiana.
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- Pagine: 423
- Data di uscita: 17-02-2011
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I read this book back in the 80's when I was in my twenties. It made perfect sense to me. I picked it up again a few years ago and as I leafed through it I thought, "Matthew Fox thinks just like I do." Then I realized, "No, I think just like he does." All these years later I can see his influence in Leggi tutto
Matthew Fox's transformational exploration of the roots of "Creation Spirituality" -- a spirituality which believes that we are born in blessing rather than sin, and which honors the mystics, earth religions, and the feminine while remaining within the bounds of orthodoxy (at least in his opinion -- Leggi tutto
Fox would seem to aspire to a marriage here which I once cheered, but now see problematic (to say the least). I mean to say the marriage between Christianity and the new so-called global "holistic spirituality". For those really interested in such "marriage aspirations" I would highly recommend inste Leggi tutto
In this book, Fox downplays the Augustinian-turned-canonical concept of original sin and shows instead how original blesisng is older, deeper, more real, and more biblically based. He explores the journey toward understanding this truth through four paths: The Via Creativa (love of creation), Via Ne Leggi tutto
Sometimes you come across a book written many years ago that transforms your current life. This book by Matthew Fox is one of those books..at least for me. Part autobiography, part instruction manual, this book has liberated my in so many ways. It has enabled me to view the Bible differently and mor Leggi tutto
Totally mind blowing. Helped me to reclaim a faith that has been so harmful and abusive. I have been looking for a framework from which to understand the Christian God after I tossed the old one because it was manipulative and traumatic. This book painted a whole new picture for me. It has also impa Leggi tutto
This was an important missing piece in my theological education and I am glad for it. I don't think he explains the relationships between the four paths to my satisfaction, and I think at times he overstates the problems of modern Christian church life, but I do think he is fundamentally correct abo Leggi tutto
To say that I was disappointed with this book would be an understatement. Matthew Fox is self-aggrandizing, manipulative, and deceitful. To those not familiar with theological writings, there's much to like about this book at first - quotes from distinguished thinkers such as Meister Eckhart, Julian Leggi tutto
There are two books called Original Blessing: this one first published in 1983 and a newer one by Danielle Shroyer. Though quite different in content, both propose a contrary viewpoint to the doctrine of original sin. They focus on humanity's originary and fundamental state as blessed rather than co Leggi tutto
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