Transcendentalists continued to think of themselves as Christians

[Doug Millison]

Mr. T:
>This is not pantheism for a Christian or a
>Quaker christian like Dixon.


Matthew Fox's term is panentheism.  Everything in Creation is of God, but
God is not limited by Creation.


http://www.levity.com/mavericks/fox-int.htm

http://conservation.catholic.org/creation_spirituality.htm

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/creation_spirituality.html

http://www.earthlight.org/mfoxontberry.html

http://www.creationspirituality.com/faqs.html
What is Creation Spirituality?

Creation Spirituality (CS) honors all of creation as an original blessing.
Creation Spirituality integrates the wisdom of Western spirituality and
global indigenous cultures with the emerging post-modern scientific
understanding of the universe and the awakening artistic passion for
creativity which reveals the inter-relatedness of all beings. The Creation
Spirituality movement seeks to integrate the wisdom of western spirituality
and global indigenous cultures with the emerging scientific understanding
of the universe and the passionate creativity of art.

Ten principles of Creation Spirituality

1.      The universe is basically a blessing, that is, something we
experience as good.

2.      We can and do relate to the universe as a whole since we are a
microcosm of that macrocosm and that this relationship "intoxicates" us.
(Aquinas)

3.      Everyone is a mystic (i.e., born full of wonder and capable of
recovering it at any age; of not taking the awe and wonder of existence for
granted.)

4.      Everyone is a prophet, i.e., a "mystic in action" (Hocking) who is
called to "interfere" (Heschel) with what interrupts authentic life.

5.      That humans have to dig and work at finding their deep self, their
true self, their spirit self; thus the role of spiritual praxis and
meditation and community confrontation which can itself be a yoga. If we do
not undergo such praxis we live superficially out of fear or greed or
addiction or someone else's expectations of us. That salvation is best
understood as "preserving the good." (Aquinas).

6.      That the journey that marks that digging can be named as a
four-fold journey:
Via Positiva: delight, awe, wonder, revelry
Via Negativa: darkness, silence, suffering, letting go
Via Creativa: birthing, creativity
Via Transformativa: compassion, justice healing, celebration

7.      Everyone is an artist in some way and art as meditation is a
primary form of prayer for releasing our images and empowering the
community and each of us. Art finds its fulfillment in ritual, the
community's art.

8.      We are all sons and daughters of God; therefore, we have divine
blood our vein, the divine breath in our lungs; and the basic work of God
is: Compassion.

9.      Divinity is as much Mother as Father, as much Child as Parent, as
much Godhead (mystery) as God (history) as much beyond all beings as in all
beings.

10.  That we experience that the Divine is in all things and all things are
in the Divine (Panentheism) and that this mystical intuition supplants
theism (and its child, atheism) as an appropriate way to name our relation
to the Divine and experience the Sacred.