The Coming of the Cosmic Christ

by Matthew Fox

Book Overview

In the most speculative and prophetic work of his career, Matthew Fox continues the enterprise begun in his bestselling Original Blessing. He gives a comprehensive description of the transformation of Christianity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060629150
• ISBN13: 9780060629151
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great reading a need read for these times

Excellent to read about this wonderful teacher teaching if the cosmic Christ

The Coming of the Cosmic Christ

This is a book for serious students of the deeply mystical. It is not for everyone. The average fundamentalist Christian is much too low on the spiritual totem pole and too hypnotically programmed to be able to understand it. Matthew Fox speaks of truths that can only be learned directly from God through meditation and prayer, not through religious double-speak and church dogma. Fox gives us the Aquarian Age message that the Christ is born in each one of us and in His entire creation.Bible worshippers should look up everything he says because it's all right there.

Hopeful for those who seek harmony in the world

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who thinks that religious wars, repression of individual spirits or rape of the earth are good things. Those who seek peace, harmony, celebration of each of us and respect for our earth will find this hopeful.

Breathtaking

not since the book by Ken Wilbur "The Spectrum Of Consciousness" has a book touched me so.. absolutely magical..

Exciting and Accessible Postmodern Christian Theology!

Uniting mysticism and spiritual development with ethical and exemplary witness, the "creation spirituality" articulated by Matthew Fox presents an inspiring vision of an alternative Christianity for the postmodern world. Freeing himself from the chains of stale Christian dogma while protesting the cold emptiness of agnostic modernism, Fox fashions a theology and spirituality that combines mysticism with a "first world" liberation theology. Fox is a panentheist, experiencing the Divine in all of nature and humanity. The Cosmic Christ is that incarnation of God in the universe and especially in Mother Earth. He develops a relevant, postmodern interpretation of the Paschal Mystery, imaging Mother Earth as Christ crucified, resurrected, and come again. Fox's union of mysticism, science, and art, and the four spiritual paths he outlined in "Original Blessing" open up individual and communal possibilities for a spirituality that is inwardly personal and contemplative, yet outwardly driven by justice and compassion. If you want to reconnect to a progressive Christianity, this book ties together ethics, myth, and theology like no other.

Fox recreates Christianity's roots in mysticism.

In what may be considered the most comprehensive outline of the Christian paradigm shift of our Age, Matthew Fox eloquently foreshadows the manner in which universal redemption may be ushered in via the spirit of Christ in terms of the return to mysticism, the expression of creativity as the highest spiritual value, the blessing of Mother Earth and the recovery of eros, the feminine aspect of deity. Rather than alluding to prophecy or a literal second coming as the title might suggest, Fox outlines in painstaking yet illuminating detail the conceptual contents of what that event or it's cultural revolutionary equivalent might bring to mankind at the millenium. This includes the necessity of a Christian apology towards the indigenous peoples and Earth-based spiritual cultures throughout the Christian era that have been the victims of literal and spiritual genocide, hypocritically commited by supposed followers of the Messiah of love and forgiveness. These ideas issuing from the collective unconscious signal the death of fundamentalism which must occur in order for Christianity to be "born again in the spirit" of mysticism from which it originallly issued forth. Fox has stepped away from hardened dogma and taken the heat for teaching the path of love, a path far closer to the words and actions of the Master than the path of those who label Fox a heretic. This is a must read for those who still believe that God is Love and grow weary of the abusive doctrines of vengeance