The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time - Hardcover

Fox, Matthew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060629185 ISBN 13: 9780060629182

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1994

Synopsis

A popular spiritualist and radical priest detects a pervasive malaise resulting from our modern attitude toward work and its relationship to life and proposes a new spiritual foundation for work rooted in the unity of all things

About this title

About the Author:

Matthew Fox (left) is a priest and director of the Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality in Oakland, California. Silenced by the Vatican in 1989, he was formally dismissed by the Dominican order in the spring of 1993 after a five-year struggle over his radical views. Fox is the author of many books, including The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, Creation Spirituality, and Sheer Joy.

From Library Journal:

"To live well is to work well," wrote Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century, yet many people are reporting to jobs every day that provide little satisfaction. Fox, a former Catholic priest and widely published author (Creation Spirituality, LJ 5/1/91), asserts that life and livelihood are about spirit. He contrasts the machine era, when the universe was perceived as a machine, with the green ("sheen") era, when the universe is seen as a mystery and where God is in all things. Arguing that all work should have dignity, Fox envisions a work world in which intellect, heart, and health harmonize to celebrate the whole person. Though Fox achieves his aims of providing an essay in "deep ecumenism," his philosophy of work seems to have little practical relevance to the work world. Recommended for libraries with modern philosophy and creation spirituality collections.
Ravonne A. Green, Emmanuel Coll. Lib., Franklin Springs, Ga.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0060629185
• ISBN 13: 9780060629182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 342