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Compassion Is
In Exile
by
Matthew Fox
REFERENCES:
1. Rev. W.
Sterling Cary, "Why They Remember the
Holocaust," in Chicago Sun-Times, April 11,
1978, Section on "The Holocaust," p. 12.
2. Robert
Coles, "Lost Generation," The New York
Review of Books, September 28, 1978, p. 50. His
essay reviews Ned O'Gorman's book, The Children Are
Dying (NY: Signet, 1978).
3. Simone
Weil, Waiting
for God (London: Fontana, 1959),
p. 116.
4. Samuel H.
Dressner, Prayer,
Humility and Compassion (Philadelphia:
Jewish Publ. Society, 1957), pp. 236f. Abbreviated D
hereafter.
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Matthew
Fox is a spiritual theologian who has been an ordained priest since
1967. A liberation theologian and progressive visionary, he was
silenced by the Vatican and later dismissed from the Dominican order.
Fox is the founder and president of the University Creation
Spirituality (UCS) located in Oakland, California. Fox is author of 24
books, including the best selling