Matthew Fox

In May 2012, Pope Benedict XVI formally declared this 12th century Benedictine nun a saint, and she was canonized in October 2012.

Passionate and provocative, Fox (the popular and controversial author of The Coming of the Cosmic Christ) uncovers the ancient tradition of a creation-centered spirituality that melds Christian mysticism with the concemporary struggles for social justice, feminism, and healing the Earth.

Though he lived in the 13th century, Meister Eckhart is in many ways modern. His thinking was deeply ecumenical, encompassing not just Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism but also shamanism and indigenous spirituality. He advocated for social, economic, and gender justice; taught about what we now call ecology; and championed artistic creativity.

Spiritual maverick Matthew Fox believes that through the ages religious patriarchal hierarchy and rigidity have obscured Christianity’s most beneficial and essential teachings: those that arise out of personal, mystical experiences of the Divine.

Matthew Fox's stirring autobiography, Confessions, reveals his personal, intellectual, and spiritual journey from altar boy, to Dominican priest, to his eventual break with the Vatican.

Hildegard of Bingen, a Rhineland mystic of the twelfth century, has been called an ideal model of the liberated woman. She was a poet and scientist, painter and musician, healer and abbess, playwright, prophet, preacher and social critic.