Posted on 06/04/2005 6:07:14 PM PDT by sionnsar
Matthew Fox, one time Roman Catholic priest and now Episcopalian, travelled to Wittenburg, Germany in May and published his own "95 Theses" there. They may be found on his web site here. And don't forget to check out the rest of his blog, which includes information about his "New Reformation" and Wisdom University (which he founded) in Oakland, California. Does anyone know, has Mr. Fox been received as a priest in the ECUSA diocese of California?
"The Protestant Era has long since ceased to exist and Protestantism finds itself in an extremely tired state with its churches effectively empty in most northern countries and little energy apparent except the arousal that happens when people are invited to hate gay clergy. "
The Reformation 500 years later - Matthew Fox speaks on the need for religious change
"It's only a movie...It's only a movie..."
Is he related to Timothy Leary? There is a striking resemblance.
Apparently he didn't get the memo that the Sixties are Over.
I was in the ECUSA in CA when he came in, I think. It just shows ALL about the ECUSA. GAG. Yah, Benedict, if he is the one who booted this mocker. Doesn't he have StarFire as his right-hand wiccan? oh give me a break.
Cool... when do they take off their clothes?!
There seems to be a lot of that going around. Fixated adolescence. Judging from the photo of the fire dancers, it looks like he may not have received the memo that the Stone Age is over either. Never been too keen on "Encounter Group" Catholicism myself. The touchy-feely mafia will try to sneak that stuff in wherever they can. You have to watch them very carefully.
LOL! And be sure you have your running shoes on!
Given just the financial disasters of the clergy molestation scandals, it probably is NOT a good idea for people to be hugging and touching one another at Mass.
We need to get away from these Encounter Group notions that Mass is the place for people to work through such issues. Some people really do not like being touched and fondled by strangers. The bishops need to respect that and get away from this flaky New Age stuff.
Mr. Fox has left the ranks of Christian...he did it a long time ago, but his 95 Theses, just like Sprong's theses, are perfect proof.
That looks like a wiccan ritual! Did this guy get some bad acid in the 60's?
In a word....creepy.
There are groups at seminaries training ECUSA and ELCA clergy where they have regular groups who pray to Gaia....and there was a wiccan ritual passing itself off as a "women's liturgy" on the ECUSA web page not that long ago.
These pics are not at all surprising.
Not infrequently, the psychologists involved in that were connected with extreme Left-wing politics including Marxism.
This renegade priest can't even invent his OWN rituals -- he has to steal them from the Wiccans, who at least had the creativity to make up their own in the 1920s . ..
I am so glad that we swapped places -- he can have the loony heretical ECUSA, I'll stick to the Catholics, thanks.
And the sooner all the mean short-haired nuns and touchy-feeling New Age Church Yoga practitioners follow him out of the RCC and into ECUSA, the better . . . I'm SURE they'll be happier there . . .
Whatever college out in California that "Father" Fox
was connected with, he did have some associations with Wiccan types. I seem to recall "Starhawk" giving seminars or workshops as part of Fox's "Creation Spirituality" psychobabble.
They got defrocked or were persuaded to resign from the priesthood . . . then they changed their minds and wanted back in (guess they found out the Wiccans don't have enough money for gas, let alone a priest's pension).
Don't know if their (extremely liberal) bish. took 'em back or not.
Back in my younger, more pagan days, I read a lot of Starhawk, and realized she was playing games with shamanistic studies and passing them off as religious experiences...sort of out of the pick and choose multicultural smorgasbord buffet....One of the things about new age approaches that irritated me enough to move on was this taking a tidbit here, a tidbit there and trying to pretend they make a spiritual truth.
But no matter what, using wiccan, neopagan, and/or shamanistic techniques, images, and rites is a true betrayal of Christian orthodoxy, and such people should be considered heretics and called such. And disfellowshipped.
Part of the attraction of the occult and the pseudo-pagan has to do with the pretensions of being part of some older and more sophisticated tradition. Since there are no unbroken lines of tradition linking back with the ancient Moon Goddess cults, the make-believe rites and Halloween costumes satisfy the curious. And the thrill seekers.
And don't forget the desire for gnosis...one of the pitfalls humans fall into time after time after time...the desire for the secret knowledge that only the special or the elect or some inner group is privy to.
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