Paul Tillich, Carl Jung and the Recovery of Religion

Is religion a positive reality in your life? If not, have you lost anything by forfeiting this dimension of your humanity? This book compares the theology of Tillich with the psychology of Jung, arguing that they were both concerned with the recovery of a valid religious sense for contemporary culture. Paul Tillich, Carl Jung and the Recovery of Religion explores in detail the diminution of the human spirit through the loss of its contact with its native religious depths, a problem on which both spent much of their working lives and energies. Both Tillich and Jung work with a naturalism that grounds all religion on processes native to the human being. Tillich does this in his efforts to recover that point at which divinity and humanity coincide and from which they differentiate. Jung does this by identifying the archetypal unconscious as the source of all religions now working toward a religious sentiment of more universal sympathy. This book identifies the dependence of both on German mysticism as a common ancestry and concludes with a reflection on how their joint perspective might affect religious education and the relation of religion to science and technology. Throughout the book, John Dourley looks back to the roots of both men's ideas about mediaeval theology and Christian mysticism making it ideal reading for analysts and academics in the fields of Jungian and religious studies.

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Dourley, John P.

Mental Health

Routledge

On Behalf of the Mystical Fool

Jung's explanation of the religious tendency of the psyche addresses many sides of the contemporary debate on religion and the role that it has in individual and social life. This book discusses the emergence of a new mythic consciousness and details ways in which this consciousness supersedes traditional concepts of religion to provide a spirituality of more universal inclusion. On Behalf of the Mystical Fool examines Jung's critique of traditional western religion, demonstrating the negative consequences of religious and political collective unconsciousness, and their consequent social irresponsibility in today's culture. The book concludes by suggesting that a new religiosity and spirituality is currently emerging in the West based on the individual’s access to the sense of ultimacy residual in the psyche, and seeking expression in a myth of a much wider compass. This book will be of interest to scholars and students at all levels who are engaged in the expanding field of Jungian studies. It will also be key reading for anyone interested in the theoretical and therapeutic connections between the psyche and religious experience.

On Behalf of the Mystical Fool: Jung on the Religious Situation

Jungian analyst and Catholic priest Dourley (emeritus religion, Carleton U., Ottawa) recounts his journey through Tillich, Jung, and the mystics: the road to the double quaternity; the psyche as sacrament: a comparative study of C.G. Jung and Paul Tillich; and love, celibacy, and the inner marriage. Among the landmarks are Jacob Boehme and humanity's redemption of the divine, the search for the non-historical Jesus, and human faiths and kidney stones. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Intellectual Autobiography of a Jungian Theologian

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Edwin Mellen Pr

Jung and the Religious Alternative: The Rerooting (Studies in the Psychology of Religion)

Religion & Spirituality

In the Western world, psychology and religion are not easy companions This extraordinary comparative study illustrates with great clarity that the antagonism is unnecessary. C. G. Jung the psychiatrist (1875-1961) and Paul Tillich the theologian (1886-1965) both understand God as immediately present, an inner reality and an inner reality and an inner resource. Tillich points to God as a power in life that transcends the ego, urging man on to wholeness - a power Jung calls the Self: the regulating center of the personality. Tillich speaks of self-acceptance. Jung of relating to one's complexes. Tillich writes of the journey toward essential humanity. Jung of the process of individuation. With a perspective that embraces both camps, the author examines the deeper meaning for Christian and non-Christian alike of God, Christ, the Spirit, the Trinity, morality and the religious life. In the depths of the soul, he concludes the psychological task and the religious task are one

The Psyche As Sacrament: A Comparative Study of C.G. Jung and Paul Tillich

History

Inner City Books

It is now well known that the traditional gap between the disciplines of psychology and theology is bridged in the work of C.G. Jung.  Because of his acknowledgement of a religious dimension to the psyche and, more specifically, his expressed concern for the soul, Jung has become a treasured spokesman for the importance of the inner life.  This book begins with an overview of Jung's model of the psyche.  It then branches out to explore the implications of this model--psychological, theological and philosophical--showing how Jung's understanding of inner dynamics can enrich one's faith and lead to a deeper understanding of one's own personality.  The author, as Catholic priest and Jungian analyst, has both the knowledge and the training to interpret Jung's views to the larger Jungian and religious communities.

Love, Celibacy and the Inner Marriage (Studies in Jungian Psychology)

Psychology & Counseling

Paul Tillich and Bonaventure: An evaluation of Tillich's claim to stand in the Augustinian-Franciscan tradition

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