The Beloved Will Guide You: St. John of the Cross and the Triple Dark Night of Our Times

Matthew Fox’s new book offers a powerful new interpretation of the great Christian mystic, John of the Cross. By employing the four paths of Creation Spirituality, he makes him come alive again. John only had access to the traditional paths of purgation, illumination, and union to interpret his profound poetry, and he had the Spanish Inquisition breathing down his neck, so his writings are sometimes misunderstood—or not seen clearly. Matthew Fox shows how John was in fact way ahead of his t...