(4) Quoted on page 134: "'God made human beings like royal persons of lesser creatures, and human beings are 'with glory,' namely, with the clarity of the divine image. And this is a kind of crown for humanity.'" Fox's Source: Aquinas' Commentary on the Psalms (1273).
For relevant related reading about our psychological royalty, see the 2007 revised and expanded edition of Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette's 1992 book The King Within: Accessing the King [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (but the King archetype is also in the female psyche, just as the Queen archetypes is in both the male psyche and the female psyche). For an accessible introduction to their thought about the four masculine archetypes of maturity, see their 1990 book King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine. Because of the impact and deep influence of what Walter J. Ong refers to as our contemporary secondary oral culture, the four feminine archetypes of maturity in our psyches are surfacing in Matthew Fox's psyche in what he refers to as the four paths of creation spirituality. Good for him! However, in the final analysis, both the masculine and the feminine archetypes of maturity are involved in the four paths of creation spirituality: (1) the Via Positiva involves both the masculine and the feminine Lover archetypes; (2) the Via Negativa involves both the masculine and the feminine Warrior archetypes; (3) the Via Creativa involves both the masculine and the feminine Magician archetypes; and (4) the Via Transformativa involves both the King and the Queen archetypes.
(5) Quoted on page 138: "'The greatness of the human person consists in this: that we are capable of the universe (capax universi).'" Fox's Source: Aquinas' De veritate (On Truth) (1256-1259).
For relevant further reading about the ancient Stoic materialist cosmology, see Troels Engberg-Pedersen's 2010 book Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul: The Material Spirit. But also see the French Franciscan Eloi Leclerc's 1970 book in French translated as The Canticle of Creatures: Symbols of Union: Analysis of St. Francis of Assisi, translated by Matthew J. O'Connell (1977). But also check out the Victorian Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins' short poem "God's Grandeur." But for a surprising related work, see Dr. Edgar Mitchell's 1996 book with Dwight Williams, The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds. For a perceptive discussion of one Canadian people's indigenous cosmology, see field anthropologist David M. Smith's 1997 essay "World as Event: Aspects of Chipewyan Ontology" that is reprinted in the anthology Of Ong and Media Ecology, edited by Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup (2012, pages 117-141). However, for a critical assessment of popular American trends pertaining to indigenous cosmology, see Philip Jenkins' 2004 book Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality. Finally, see Pope Francis' discussion of indigenous cosmology in his 2020 apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazon).
(6) Quoted on page 139: "'Human beings have an intellect somehow equal to the angels because of the property and capability of souls [psyches].'" Fox's Source: Aquinas' Commentary on Dionysius's De Causis (1261?).
For relevant related reading about angels, see Mortimer J. Adler's accessible short 1982 book The Angels and Us. For a more venturesome discussion of angels, see the 2014 edition of Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake's 1996 book The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet. For a relevant recent discussion of the Hebrew Bible, see James L. Kugel's 2017 book The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times.
(7) Quoted on page 176: "'The root of all virtue is the desire for joy and happiness.'" Fox's Source: Aquinas' De Malo (On Evil) (1266-1267).
For relevant related reading, check out what the Declaration of Independence says about the pursuit of happiness.
(8) Quoted on page 301: "'The image is a principle of our knowledge. It is that from which our intellectual activity begins, not as a passing stimulus, but as an enduring foundation.'" Fox's Source: Aquinas' Commentary on Boethius's De Trinitate (1258-1259).
For an accessible introduction to Boethius, see John Marenbon's 2003 book Boethius.But for relevant related reading about imagistic thinking, see Eric A. Havelock's 1963 book Preface to Plato (but note that Plato is often one of the targets of Aquinas' critiques).
(9) Quoted on page 326: "'It is a great thing to do miracles, but it is a greater thing to live virtuously.'" Fox's Source: Aquinas' Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew (1256-1259).
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