An Assessment of the Theology of Carl Gustav Jung
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An Assessment of the Theology of Carl Gustav Jung
Keywords: quaternity, trinity, nature of evil, the Self, Christ, complexio oppositorum, summum bonum, privatio boni, theology of the cross, Jung, Luther.
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I have read the article and find it interesting, especially in relation to Jung's book, 'Answer to Job', in which he discusses in depth the problem of evil and speaks of the quaternity being more in line with the 'wholeness' of the psyche, including evil and the feminine principle.
However, the article seems to gloss over the Jungian perspective on religion, especially in its title which sees his argument in connection with theology. While he did have ongoing exchange with the theologian, Victor White, he was not writing from a theological angle primarily. His approach to religion drew upon Gnosticism and Eastern religion. The Gnostic aspect was important because his understanding of the idea of God was based on a Gnostic sense of knowledge, in terms of religious experience. He also adopts a symbolic interpretation of religious texts and his entire approach to God is with reference to the image of God. He sees the reality of God as difficult to establish, drawing on Kantian metaphysics, especially the problem of knowledge of the numinous.
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Anyway, both his Kantian epistemology and his philosophy of science are obsolete. I discuss it here: http://mlwi.magix.net/jungmetaphysic.htm ("Jung’s metaphysic and epistemology: Platonism or Phenomenology?"). But also here: http://mlwi.magix.net/privatioboni.htm ("Carl Jung, privatio boni, and the return of Manichaeism"). In the latter article I also discuss Jung and the Book of Job.
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