My New Book on Trump & MAGA as Anti-Christ, continued

In yesterday’s DM, I introduced you to my new book, Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election.

Included in the book are ten colored paintings, seven of Signorelli’s frescoes, one by Fra Angelico and two by Hildegard of Bingen, one on Christ and one on the Anti-Christ.  The Table of Contents follows:

Foreword by Caroline Myss
Introduction: An “Aha!” Moment in a Church in Orvieto
Chapter One: Freud’s Encounter with the Anti-Christ Painting in Orvieto Cathedral
Chapter Two: The Anti-Christ as a Naming of Evil
Chapter Three: Christ as Archetype
Chapter Four: Anti-Christ as Archetype
Chapter Five: Jesus and Democracy
Chapter Six: MAGA: Making America Grotesque Again
Chapter Seven: 18 Signs of the Times: The Anti-Christ in American Politics, 2024
Chapter Eight: Hildegard of Bingen: The Anti-Christ as Patriarchy
Conclusion: Be a Camel and Escape the Allurement of the Anti-Christ
Epilogue: Christ, Anti-Christ, and the 2024 Election
Afterword by Andrew Harvey
Appendix: MAGA’s Precarious Manhood vs. Authentic Masculinity

From the Foreword by Caroline Myss: If there was ever a time, a moment, for examining the archetype of the antichrist it is now…Read this book with an open mind.  Good and evil are real forces in our world.

From the Afterword by Andrew Harvey:

Matthew Fox is our living elder statesman of the authentic Christian mystical tradition.  This book may be the most important of all the great and pioneering works he has graced us with over the decades, as our greatest living Christian theologian.  It is certainly the bravest, the riskiest, and the most affronting to anyone who doubts the existence and terrible power of evil in our expanding global dark night….

There is a far greater power of Eternal Light that uses without them knowing, both evil and its emissary, for the Divine’s own redemptive purposes….The arc of history the Christ has shown us bends not only towards justice but to resurrection. 

From a reader of the advance copy of the book, who is a mother and grandmother:

Once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down.  The energy of the book is lingering.  Realizing that I have felt this heaviness looming and didn’t know how to name it.  You have named it and now I know what we are facing.

Very quick and concise read.  Easy to follow and absorb.  Startling to see it all woven together!  This book and its author I believe will go down in history as the person and vehicle that dared to call out evil by its true name into the light of truth and justice.  My prayer is that the Holy Spirit guides it into the hands of all those with eyes to see and ears to hear.

You can pre-order the hard copy HERE.  We already have requests of multiple copies for distribution so there is a 10% price reduction, plus free shipping, for 10 or more books. I am personally asking each of you to help promote the book by GETTING THE WORD OUT to your family, friends, colleagues and organizations. Let this be our contribution to keeping America on a democratic trajectory by encouraging democracy over theocracy.

CORRECTION: In yesterday’s DM we referred to a book titled Freud Visits Orvieto. That title was incorrect; the correct title is Freud’s Trip to Orvieto: The Great Doctor’s Unresolved Confrontation with Antisemitism, Death, and Homoeroticism; His Passion for Paintings; and the Writer in His Footsteps. The author is Nicholas Fox Weber; it was published in hardcover on May 9, 2017.

See “Announcing Matthew Fox’s Newest Book, Confronting Evil in Our Time” on MatthewFox.org.

See also Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society.

See also Fox, The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved.

See also Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.

See also Fox, A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality & The Transformation of Christianity.

Banner Image: The cover image of Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, flipped to horizontal format.

Queries for Contemplation

How important is it to you to hear named the “heaviness that is looming” so that we can face it and move beyond it?

Recommended Reading

Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society

Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them. 
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science.  A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics

The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved

The Pope’s War offers a provocative look at three decades of corruption in the Catholic Church, focusing on Josef Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. The final section in the book focuses on birthing a truly catholic Christianity.
“This book should be read by everybody, not only for its ferocious courage, but also for its vision for what needs to be saved from the destructive forces that threaten authentic Christianity.” ~ Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope.
“In the gripping The Pope’s War, Matthew Fox takes an unwavering look at the layers of corruption in the Catholic Church, holding moral truth against power.”   — Jason Berry, author of Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II

Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality

Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story

A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality & The Transformation of Christianity

A modern-day theologian’s call for the radical transformation of Christianity that will allow us to move once again from the hollow trappings of organized religion to genuine spirituality. A New Reformation echoes the Reformation initiated by Martin Luther in 1517 and offers a new vision of Christianity that values the Earth, honors the feminine, and respects science and deep ecumenism.
“This is a deep and forceful book….With prophetic insight, Matthew Fox reveals what has corrupted religion in the West and the therapy for its healing.” ~Bruce Chilton, author of Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography