1st Edition

Paul Tillich, Carl Jung and the Recovery of Religion

By John P. Dourley Copyright 2008
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Toward a Salvageable Tillich: The Implications of His Late Confession of Provincialism. The Problem of Essentialism: Tillich’s Anthropology Versus His Christology. Christ as the Picture of Essential Humanity: One of Many. Tillich on Boehme: A Restrained Embrace. The Goddess, Mother of the Trinity: Tillich’s Late Suggestion. The Problem of the Three and the Four in Paul Tillich and Carl Jung. Bringing Up Father: Jung on Job and the Education of God in History. Memory and Emergence: Jung and the Mystical Anamnesis of the Nothing. Tillich’s Theonomous Naturalism and its Relation to Religious and Medical Healing. Jung, Tillich and Their Challenge to Religious Education. Tillich, Jung, and the Wisdom and Morality of Doing Science and Technology.

Biography

John Dourley is Professor Emeritus, Department of Religion, at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He graduated as a Jungian analyst from the Zurich/Kusnacht Institute and has published widely on Jung and religion.

"His book makes for very invigorating reading as page after page reveals a really erudite encounter between Jung and Tillich… Read this book, then, for a masterful discussion of two truly sophisticated, spiritually developed individuals." – Tony Woolfson, International Journal of Jungian Studies, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 2009

"I found the author’s synthesis of Jung and Tillich a compelling analysis of the nature of the human condition... This important book illuminates that aspect of Jung’s thought which has too often been dismissed pejoratively by uninformed critics as ‘mysticism.’"George Bright, Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 55, 2010