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by Richard G Korthals
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by Irma shorell w/ julie dav
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by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Spirituality Named Compassion
by Matthew Fox
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harper San Francisco (1985-12)
ISBN: 0866837515
EAN: 9780866837514
Paperback
SKU: mon0000021326
Condition: Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
In this challenging book, Matthew Fox argues that humanity's hope for survival rests in revisioning the entire fabric of society, using compassion as the touchstone for creating a spiritually centered eco-feminism that can nurture a society that values justice, sharing, creativity, and stewardship of the earth.
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Customer Reviews
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Dancing Sarah's Circle
Rating  (5)
Date: 2001-09-27
19 out of 19 customers found this reveiw helpful
Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice. This book was a gift from a dear friend, and what a gift it has turned out to be. I will always be mindful of the difference between climbing Jacob's Ladder and dancing Sarah's Circle. It is such a perfect metaphor for the lives we have built. It is especially poignant to have read this volume and finished it so close to the recent tragedies here in the US on 9/11/01. It makes me wonder exactly how much of the hate directed at our country is due to the Jacob's Ladder world we have created. It is high time that we paid attention to dancing instead of climbing.Matthew had so much to teach me about compassion - that it is not pity but celebration, not sentiment but making justice and doing works of mercy, and that it is not private or ego-centric but public. Then Matthew helps us to understand how the teachings in our culture, that of ever climbing - the ladders of success or acquisitions - and distancing ourselves from others and how those teachings separate us from compassion, can be a significant cause of pain in our world. Many of us know the song to which Matthew refers: We are climbing Jacob's Ladder / Soldiers of the Cross. We may not be familiar with the corollary to that song (sung to the same tune): We are Dancing Sarah's Circle / Sisters, Brothers, All. The message of this book - give up being "Soldiers of the Cross," and instead become "Sisters, Brothers, All," is definitely a message for our time.
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A Weighty Message in Unorthodox Garb.
Rating  (3)
Date: 2000-05-28
22 out of 25 customers found this reveiw helpful
If one can get beyond the panentheism of Fox's mystical theology, one can hear a brilliant voice making a valid plea. Fox urges that the church free itself from hierarchical posturing and embrace a holistic spirituality that embraces compassion as the heart of life. Fox brilliantly critiques the manner in which modernity has perverted compassion, turning it into a sappy, sentimental virtue rather than a celebration of creation and the communion of humanity. His plea for a holistic spirituality of mystical communion is engaging but will miss the mark for Christians looking for 12-step techniques for spiritual revival. But maybe this is Fox's point: spirituality is inevitably distorted when transformed into a linear "technique."
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