Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Fox, Matthew, Fr., O.P.
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Other form(s) of name
- Fr. Matthew Fox
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
Fr. Matthew Fox (Br. Matthew in his letter to Merton) was a Dominican priest who stirred up quite a following and much controversy over his ideas about creation spirituality, denial of original sin, interfaith unity and ecological Christianity. The Vatican had him silenced and he was dismissed from the Dominicans. In 1994, he was accepted by an Episcopal bishop in California. At the time of writing to Merton, he was still in his graduate studies with the Dominicans.