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 Original Blessing; The Reinvention of Work; Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart's Creation Spirituality in New Translation; Natural Grace (with scientist Rupert Sheldrake), and his most recent, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh.

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