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Creativity

by Matthew Fox · 2002

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Drawn from sermons and lectures that have electrified listeners, here is a concise, powerful meditation on the nature of creativity from Episcopal priest and radical theologian Matthew Fox.

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Creativityis Fox at his most dynamic: It is immensely practical and leaves the reader with a message to take into action in life. Fox tantalizingly suggests that the most prayerful, most spiritually powerful act a person can undertake is to create, at his or her own level, with a consciousness of where that gift arises from.

Subject
self-helpself-helpMore like thisLess of thispsychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
creativitycreativityMore like thisLess of thisspiritualityspiritualityMore like thisLess of thisreligionreligionMore like thisLess of thisartartMore like thisLess of thiswriterswritersMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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