Can the Rev. Matthew Fox Even Be Considered a Christian?

Re “The Renegade Reverend” (Dec. 11): It is interesting that in the whole article about a former Catholic priest and now Episcopal Rev. Matthew Fox, Jesus Christ was not mentioned once. Nor was his Last Supper or redeeming death on the cross, which form the basis of Christian worship.

Yet Rev. Fox wants to “reinvent” worship. He seems to have lost his way into a sect, trying to appease all peoples.

MARIO MICHAEL MARTINI

Pacific Palisades

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So now the Los Angeles Times wishes to delight us with another nut whose claim to fame is the ability to move sideways across otherwise clear terms. Is Rev. Fox a Christian or a pantheist? What in the teaching of Christ does he find unclear?

Is the Episcopalian denomination still a Christian faith? If so, how do they theologically justify retaining Fox as a “reverend” as well as loan $85,000 to his University of Creation Spirituality?

What great new spiritual truth does Rev. Fox possess to attract such money away from widows, orphans and strangers in our midst who are in need?

Rev. Fox claims not to have broken with Christian tradition, but incorporates other religions, other philosophies, other traditions. Is this possible? Matthew Fox is very like Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science, who is quoted as saying, “I didn’t like any of the religions I was acquainted with, and so I made up one that I did like.”

In this post-literate society where life imitates art, art is an imprecise term and invites styles, fads and designer approaches to a fuzzy God.

LARRY SNOW

Anaheim