Paul Tillich, Carl Jung and the Recovery of Religion

Many readers will be familiar with the work of Tillich and Jung, as well as being concerned with the recovery of religion and spirituality in our time. The writer wrote a thesis on the former and trained as a Jungian analyst 30 years ago. As such he is uniquely placed to write such a book. His starting point is that both these thinkers identified the origins of religious experience in the depth of the human being, leading to what he calls a radical immanence as the basis for an emerging religious universalism. A pivotal chapter contrasts the trinity of Tillich with the quaternity of Jung (4 represents wholeness), but the approach of both men was concerned with the coincidence of opposites and the integration of polarities. Another common theme is a critique of the purely scientific and technological mindset which uproots us from our own depth. This is not a book for the beginner, but rather a rich reflection on parallel themes from these two great thinkers.