(Tangential comment) I took a class from Matthew Fox when he was teaching at Holy Names College in Oakland, CA (not for credit since I wasn't a regular student there). This was shortly after he had returned to teaching after having been silenced by the Pope for a year, and a couple of years before the same Pope forced him out of the Dominican Order. It was a survey class on Christian mystics of the Middle Ages, e.g. Meister Eckhardt, Dame Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila.
I'm not a Christian. I took the course because several of the writers we dipped into reading were women. Most organized religions do not have much of anything in the way of writings by female religious leaders and teachers who had respected positions in their own denominations (as opposed to those who left or were kicked out and founded their own sects). So I was curious about them and how they got along with the rest of the Church. The course introduced us to about eight mystics but only skimmed the surface of their teachings. Good enough for me since I was completely ignorant coming in.
Dr. Fox made passing reference to Creation Spirituality and Brian Swimme, but most of the students had already covered that in previous classes (I think). The RCC has a different take on the divine creation than Judaism does, so I don't have a dog in that fight. Fox was a bit shocked when I defended Philo of Alexandria against a disparaging remark he made in passing; not that I knew a heck of a lot about Philo, but I don't think our teacher was accustomed to having any students who had heard of Philo at all.
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Re: Laughing!
Date: 2021-11-19 01:03 am (UTC)I'm not a Christian. I took the course because several of the writers we dipped into reading were women. Most organized religions do not have much of anything in the way of writings by female religious leaders and teachers who had respected positions in their own denominations (as opposed to those who left or were kicked out and founded their own sects). So I was curious about them and how they got along with the rest of the Church. The course introduced us to about eight mystics but only skimmed the surface of their teachings. Good enough for me since I was completely ignorant coming in.
Dr. Fox made passing reference to Creation Spirituality and Brian Swimme, but most of the students had already covered that in previous classes (I think). The RCC has a different take on the divine creation than Judaism does, so I don't have a dog in that fight. Fox was a bit shocked when I defended Philo of Alexandria against a disparaging remark he made in passing; not that I knew a heck of a lot about Philo, but I don't think our teacher was accustomed to having any students who had heard of Philo at all.