Evaluating Jung From A Christian Perspective Essay
Running head: EVALUATING JUNG FROM A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
Evaluating Jung From A Christian Perspective
Abstract
Carl Gustav Jung has influenced many facets of modern psychology and counseling with his unique spiritual approach to personality theory. Herein lies a biographical address of Jung 's life, a comprehensive overview of the principle tenets of his personality theories, and a Christian evaluation of his work. Specific attention is given to comparing and contrasting Jung 's theory of a collective unconscious with a Christian 's understanding of the spiritual world. In addition, a guide is provided to Christians looking to mine Jung 's work for techniques that might help their clients, while at the same time avoiding others …show more content…
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Christian Response To The Collective Unconscious
Jung 's collective unconscious might excite the Christian who is thinking of the biblical descriptions of angels, demons, heaven, hell, and the entire spiritual world. Is Jung tapping into a part of all of us that comprehends these spiritual things? Both the Christian 's understanding of the spiritual world and Jung 's collective unconscious are unseen. And both views believe all humanity participates or will participate in their unseen world.
However, Jung 's view is specifically amoral, whereas Scripture describes God 's revealed morality for humans in the material world and angels and demons in the spirit world (2 Pet 2:410 NASB). For the collective unconscious to encompass all the Christian understands about the spiritual world, it would have to be under God 's authority and therefore moral. A Christian understands God as eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent, and thus God would have sovereignty over the collective unconscious if it did exist.
In addition, a Christian 's understanding of the spirit world is that it exists as a real space even though it cannot be seen. A Christian believes this spirit world cannot be entered by
Evaluating Jung From A Christian Perspective
Abstract
Carl Gustav Jung has influenced many facets of modern psychology and counseling with his unique spiritual approach to personality theory. Herein lies a biographical address of Jung 's life, a comprehensive overview of the principle tenets of his personality theories, and a Christian evaluation of his work. Specific attention is given to comparing and contrasting Jung 's theory of a collective unconscious with a Christian 's understanding of the spiritual world. In addition, a guide is provided to Christians looking to mine Jung 's work for techniques that might help their clients, while at the same time avoiding others …show more content…
97).
Christian Response To The Collective Unconscious
Jung 's collective unconscious might excite the Christian who is thinking of the biblical descriptions of angels, demons, heaven, hell, and the entire spiritual world. Is Jung tapping into a part of all of us that comprehends these spiritual things? Both the Christian 's understanding of the spiritual world and Jung 's collective unconscious are unseen. And both views believe all humanity participates or will participate in their unseen world.
However, Jung 's view is specifically amoral, whereas Scripture describes God 's revealed morality for humans in the material world and angels and demons in the spirit world (2 Pet 2:410 NASB). For the collective unconscious to encompass all the Christian understands about the spiritual world, it would have to be under God 's authority and therefore moral. A Christian understands God as eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent, and thus God would have sovereignty over the collective unconscious if it did exist.
In addition, a Christian 's understanding of the spirit world is that it exists as a real space even though it cannot be seen. A Christian believes this spirit world cannot be entered by