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C. G. Jung and Hans Urs von Balthasar
God and evil - A critical comparison
Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies Series
Author: Oglesby Les
Language: EnglishSubjects for C. G. Jung and Hans Urs von Balthasar:
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Behavioural Science; Jungian psychology; Jung; Balthasar; Evil; religion; theology; God; psychoanalysis; Complexio Oppositorum; Young Man; God's Involvement; Hans Urs Von Balthasar; Dualistic Monism; Balthasar’s View; Balthasarian Approach; Balthasar's Understanding; Mysterium Paschale; Das Nichtige; Contrary Opposites; Immanent Trinity; Balthasar’s Theology; Reinterpretive Psychologist; Clementine Homilies; Kenotic Love; Zofingia Lectures; Finite Freedom; CWA; PADT; CW; Adrienne Von Speyr; Jung's Project; Trinitarian Event; Auxiliary Functions
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Publication date: 12-2016
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This book brings together the work of Carl Gustav Jung and Hans Urs von Balthasar, two of the most creative thinkers in psychology and theology in the twentieth century, to critically compare their ideas on the perennial question of God?s involvement with evil.
In later life Jung embarked on a project relating to Christianity, with psychotherapeutic and theological intentions, forming his collection of essays, Symbolik des Geistes, in which God and evil was a major theme. Balthasar gave significant attention to Jung?s psychology in his own theological trilogy, but opposed the approach to God and evil that Jung presented.
In this book Les Oglesby provides a thorough examination of convergences and divergences in Jung and Balthasar?s thinking, their different approaches to the origins and reality of evil, as well as their alternative theological orientations. The book culminates with a study of each man?s understanding of the central event of Christianity, Christ?s death on the Cross and his descent to the dead and discusses how Balthasar?s ?vertical? and Jung?s ?horizontal? approach to this major happening can be held together fruitfully with one another.
Illustrating how analytical psychology and Christian theology can mutually enrich one another when they are held in creative tension, this book invites reflection on the meaning of the central symbol of Christianity, and God?s involvement with evil as an aid to integrated psychological living and theological maturity. It will prove fascinating for students of psychology and religion as well as for Jungian analysts and practical theologians.
Preface Part 1: Constructing a Framework for Critical Comparison Introducing Jung and Balthasar. A Framework for Critical Comparison Part 2: Bases for Critical Comparison Anthropology and Theological Orientation. Analogy and Polarity Part 3: God’s Involvement with Evil Evil – its Origins and Reality. Jung on God’s Involvement with Evil. The Cross in Jung and Balthasar Part 4: Conclusion A Cruciform Model for God’s Involvement with Evil. Summary.
Les Oglesby was Director of Ministry in the Diocese of Ely, and has now retired. He gained his Lambeth PhD in Psychology and Theology in 2012.