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Published on: 12/11/2008
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A Review of Ann Belford Ulanov and Alvin Dueck, The Living God and Our Living Psyche: What Christians Can Learn From Carl Jung, William B. Eerdmans, 2008.
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Her book consists of three essays put into historical context by co-author Alvin Dueck, a psychologist at Fuller Theological Seminary and a student of the Christian-Jungian dialogue.
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Dueck, on the other hand, is well aware that sides still exist, that tensions do as well.
To allay the concerns of evangelicals, he observes that Ulanov neither "Jungianizes" Christianity nor "fully baptizes" Jung.
She does not reduce God to subjective experience, she does not reduce Jesus to an archetype, she does not locate evil as well as good in God-all of which Jung does or comes close to doing.
Instead, she asks Christians to live their lives within their tradition "while utilizing Jung's insights along the way."
Jung's insights were into myth, symbol, and ritual-into imagery, conscious and unconscious, and that is Ulanov's path.
Images, she says, are how "we differently apprehend God: some of us visually, others of us through bodily sensations, textures, smells, sounds.