Creation Spirituality

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Creation Spirituality is a set of beliefs about God and humanity promoted by the theologian and Episcopal priest Matthew Fox, formerly a Roman Catholic priest of the Dominican Order. It is a mystical philosophy that celebrates the universe, emphasizes creativity as a key component of the universe, and believes that all people have a divine creative impulse. It espouses a panentheist view of God.

Fox formulated his beliefs in several books, including The Coming of the Cosmic Christ and Original Blessing.

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Basic Beliefs

A good summary of the main tenets of Creation Spirituality can be found in the 2004 book Who Is My God?, which lists ten major principles.

The universe is basically a blessing, that is, something we experience as good.
Everyone is a mystic--born full of wonder and capable of recovering it at any age.

Everyone is a prophet, a mystic in action, who is called to interfere with anything that interrupts authentic life.

Humans have to dig and work at finding their true self.

Salvation is best understood as "preserving the good."

The journey that marks that digging can be named as a fourfold journey: 1) via positiva: delight, awe, wonder, revelry; 2) via negativa: darkness, silence, suffering, letting go; 3) via creativa: birthing, creativity; and 4) via transformativa: compassion, justice, healing, celebration.

Everyone is an artist in some way, and art as meditation is a primary form of prayer.

We are all sons and daughters of God; therefore, we have divine blood in our veins, the divine breath in our lungs; and the basic work of God is: Compassion.

Divinity is as much Mother as Father, as much Child as Parent, as much Godhead (mystery) as God (history), as much beyond all beings as in all beings.