Original Blessing is Matthew Fox's pathbreaking re-imagination of Christianity. Here is a spirituality based not on the fall-redemption model but centered on life as a blessing. Fox finds the happening word of God (dabhar) in the wonders of nature. He sees passion, humility, eros, pleasure, and beauty as important elements of creation spirituality. The mystical view of panentheism (God in everything and everything in God) opens the doors to a love of the cosmos and a deep respect for the royal personhood of all human beings.
There is an effervescent buoyancy to Fox's vision of God as an artist and humans as making creative contributions humans to the Great Work of the universe. There is depth in Fox's understanding of the practices of compassion and justice-making. By transcending a dualistic view of the world, the author has fashioned a creation-centered tradition that provides a map for twenty-first century Christianity. At the end of this cassette reader Michael Toms interviews Matthew Fox about developments in the creation spirituality movement since this work was first published as a book in 1983.