Detail View: Matthew Fox Collection: Introduction to Original Blessing with Matthew Fox, O.P.

Collection Name: 
Matthew Fox Collection
Title: 
Introduction to Original Blessing with Matthew Fox, O.P.
Title Type: 
Proper
Name: 
Fox, Matthew, 1940-
Name Role Term Text: 
Priests
Resource Type: 
Moving image
Genre: 
color films (visual works)
Genre: 
Promotional films
Publisher: 
Busch, Catherine A.
Date Created: 
Undated
Publisher: 
Positive Media
Language Term: 
English
Extent: 
1 videocassette (19 min., 19 sec)
Form: 
VHS
Abstract: 
Lecture Matthew Fox presented as an introduction to Original Blessing. Topics include climate change, political/educational/social institutions, religious renewal, imagination, and reverence all in connection to the meaning of Original Blessing.
Note: 
00:00:00 Introduction to Original Blessing with Matthew Fox, O.P. 00:00:08 Fox speaks to and audience about suicide, poverty, houselessness, universal education and healthcare, as a symptom of humanity being spirituality, systems, and imagination being frozen. He speaks of a religious renewal being the antidote. 00:03:20 Fox speaks on Original Blessing and its historical and contemporary implications. 00:10:30 Fox transitions to speaking about the Earth and its resources - focusing on water, human DNA, - and how humanity fails to treat these resources, these small things, with reverence. He connects this with the reverence in Original Blessing as a fix to being frozen. 00:14:32 Fox speaks about creation and compassion with life. 00:16:54 Fox's conclusion regarding Original Blessing, compassion, and trust. 00:18:30 Fox asks his audience if there is anything they'd like to talk about. footage of him taking to the audience and the audience talking amongst themselves. 00:18:56 Directed by Catherine A. Busch. Video by Positive Media. 00:10:00 Original Blessing by Matthew Fox, O.P. published by Bear & Co., Santa Fe NM (800) 932-3277. 00:19:10 Produced by Friends of Creation in cooperation with Franciscan Communications ©1986 00:19:19 End of recording.
Subject Topic: 
Spiritual life--New Age movement
Subject Topic: 
Spirituality
Subject Topic: 
Lectures
Subject Topic: 
Climatic changes
Subject Topic: 
Origonal Blessing
Subject Topic: 
Theology
Subject Topic: 
Compassion--Religious aspects
Subject Name: 
Fox, Matthew, 1940-
Identifier: 
U183071287853_narv_foxMatthew_85-7_introductionToOriginalBlessing_a.mp4
Identifier ARK: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/cq479h31h4b2
Physical Location: 
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Shelf Locator: 
COU: 5082 | box 85 | item 7
Date Captured: 
Spring, 2024
Internet Media Type: 
video/mp4
Digital Origin: 
reformatted digital
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