Matthew Fox (priest)

The Reverend Matthew Fox
Church	Episcopal Church (United States)
Orders
Ordination	1972 (Roman Catholic)
Personal details
Birth name	Timothy James Fox
Born	1940 (age 76–77) Madison, Wisconsin United States
Occupation	Episcopal priest (ECUSA), theologian

Matthew Fox (born Timothy James Fox in 1940) is an American priest and theologian. Formerly a member of the Dominican Order within the Roman Catholic Church, he became a member of the Episcopal Church following his expulsion from the order in 1993. Fox was an early and influential exponent of a movement that came to be known as Creation Spirituality. The movement draws inspiration from (though diverges doctrinally from) the mystical philosophies of such medieval Catholic visionaries as Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas, Saint Francis of Assisi, Julian of Norwich, Dante Alighieri, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa, as well as the wisdom traditions of Christian scriptures. Creation Spirituality is also strongly aligned with ecological and environmental movements of the late 20th century and embraces numerous spiritual traditions around the world, including Buddhism, Judaism, Sufism, and Native American spirituality, with a focus on "deep ecumenism" or what its critics would call "syncretism" and therefore doctrinal error.

Fox has written 30 books that have sold millions of copies and by the mid-1990s had attracted a "huge and diverse following".

Timothy James Fox, was born in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1967, when he entered the Roman Catholic Order of Preachers he was given the religious name of "Matthew". He received master's degrees in both philosophy and theology from the Aquinas Institute of Theology and later earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in Medieval theology, summa cum laude, from the Institut Catholique de Paris, studying with Marie-Dominique Chenu. After receiving his doctorate, Fox began teaching at a series of Catholic universities, beginning in 1972 in Chicago with Barat College of the Sacred Heart.

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