Table of Contents

Preface - The Second Edition

Preface - Retrieving Compassion from its Lonely Exile

1. Towards a Meaning of Compassion: From Exiling Compassion as Sentiment to Living Compassion as a Way of Life

2. Sexuality and Compassion: From Climbing Jacob's Ladder to Dancing Sarah's Circle

3. Psychology and Compassion: From a Psychology of Control (Competition, Compulsion and Dualism) to Psychology of Celebration (Letting Be, Letting Go, Letting Dialectic Happen)

4. Creativity and Compassion: From a Fetish with the Cross to an Exploration of the Empty Tomb

5. Science, Nature, and Compassion: From a Mechanistic and Piecemeal Universe to an Organic and Interdependent One

6. Economics and Compassion: From an Expansionist Economics based on the 'Wealth of Nations' to an Economics of Interdependence based on the Survival of the Global Village

7. Politics and Compassion: From an Elitist and Ladder-Like Solution to Political Issues to a Just Sharing in a Sarah-Circle Body Politic

8. Compassion and the Healing of Humpty Dumpty, the Global Village and Us: FRom the Salvation of the Privatized Soul to the Mending of the Cracked World Soul

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About the Author

Matthew Fox is a theologian, educator, former Dominican priest, and the author of such popular books as Original Blessing and The Coming of the Cosmic Christ. The author of twenty-one books and the winner of numerous awards, he is also the founder and president of the University of Creation Spirituality and codirector of The Naropa Institute’s master’s program in Creation Spirituality, both in Oakland, California.

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