Matthew Fox “Evolution and Creation Spirituality” Episode 18 (transcript of audio) of The Advent of Evolutionary Christianity EvolutionaryChristianity.com Note: The 38 interviews in this series were recorded in December 2010 and January 2011.
______________________ Michael Dowd (host): Welcome to Episode 18 of “The Advent of Evolutionary Christianity: Conversations at the Leading Edge of Faith.” I’m Michael Dowd, and I’m your host for this series, which can be accessed via EvolutionaryChristianity.com—where we encourage you to add your voice to the conversation. Today, Matthew Fox (also here) is our featured guest. Matt is the Founder of the Creation Spirituality Movement. He is formerly a Catholic priest, now Episcopal, and he has been an inspiration to an entire generation of evolutionary Christians. He is the author of twenty-eight books, including Original Blessing, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, and A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity. Here we talk about “Evolution and Creation Spirituality.” Host: Hello Matthew Fox, and thank you for joining this conversation on Evolutionary Christianity. Matthew: Hello Michael, good to be with you. Host: Good to have you here. I’ve been looking forward to this, brother. So, Matt, if you can share a little bit of your story, your pilgrimage: How did you come to be where you are now, professionally and intellectually? And then how did you come to this place where you now embrace a creation-honoring version of Christianity and a “deep time” understanding of evolution? Matthew: Well, I grew up in Wisconsin—Madison, Wisconsin—a university town. I was part of a large family and Roman Catholic. My parish was a Dominican parish and I went to public high school, but I had a lot of debates with my Protestant, Jewish, and agnostic friends about religious things. I'd go to my pastor and he would feed me with kind of the intellectual tradition —have me reading Thomas Aquinas and G. K. Chesterton, and so forth. And I really liked that dimension to my faith life. It certainly was not a fundamentalist upbringing at all. Then I thought of joining the Dominicans because I attended a retreat as a senior in high school at their House of Studies in Dubuque, Iowa. I was very moved by this sense of
Matthew Fox: “Evolution and Creation Spirituality”
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