C G Jung and Hans Urs von Balthasar God and evil A critical comparison 1st Edition by Les Oglesby 0415791782 9780415791786

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ISBN 10: 0415791782

ISBN 13: 9780415791786

Author: Les Oglesby

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.

C G Jung and Hans Urs von Balthasar God and evil A critical comparison 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction

PART I Constructing a framework for critical comparison

2 Introducing Jung and Balthasar

3 A framework for critical comparison

PART II Bases for critical comparison

4 Anthropology and theological orientation

5 Analogy and polarity

PART III God’s involvement with evil

6 Evil – its origins and reality

7 Jung on God’s involvement with evil

8 The Cross in Jung and Balthasar

PART IV Conclusion

9 A cruciform model for God’s involvement with evil

10 Summary

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