C. G. Jung and Hans Urs von Balthasar: God and evil - A critical comparison

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
Part I: Constructing a framework for critical comparison
	2. Introducing Jung and Balthasar
		Jung – a sketch of his life and work
		Balthasar – a sketch of his life and work
		Jung’s project in relation to Christianity
		Balthasar’s theological project
			Introduction: Epilogue
			Theological aesthetics not aesthetical theology
			Theodrama – The Saving Action
			Theo-logic – Divine Truth and Creaturely Truth
		Evil in Jung’s Symbolik des Geistes and in Balthasar’s works
		And In Balthasar’s Works
		Notes
	3. A framework for critical comparison
		An adapted Frei/Ford typology
		Balthasar as a type 2 contextualizing theologian
			Openness to culture
			A distinctive response to culture
			Relating a type 2 theology to other disciplines
		Jung as a type 4 reinterpretive psychologist
			Other readings of Jung
			Jung’s scientific orientation
			Jung’s phenomenological orientation
			Jung’s metaphysical orientation
		Notes
Part II: Bases for critical comparison
	4. Anthropology and theological
orientation
		Comparable anthropologies?
			Jung’s map of the psyche
			Balthasar’s theological anthropology
		Differing theological orientations
			Jung’s ‘Joachimite’ theological orientation
			Balthasar’s corpus triforme theological orientation
		Notes
	5. Analogy and polarity
		Differing views on analogy
		Differing understandings of polarity
			Balthasar’s dialectic of contradiction
			Jung’s dualistic monism
		Satan in the Old Testament – a case study
			Theological orientation
			Analogy and polarity
		Notes
Part III: God’s involvement with evil
	6. Evil – its origins and reality
		Divine and human involvement in the origin of evil
		How Jung and Balthasar understand the reality of evil
			Jung’s understanding of evil
			Balthasar’s understanding of evil
		Notes
	7. Jung on God’s involvement
with evil
		The problem of the fourth
		The patristic elaboration of the doctrine of the Trinity
		The application of Jung’s therapeutic method
			Anamnesis and reconstruction
			Two types of psychological interpretation
			The therapeutic relationship
		Jung’s specifically theological interpretations
			The divine drama linked to human development
			Jung’s assessment of the Christ/Antichrist conflict
			Jung’s ‘Joachimite’ theology of the Spirit in relation to the Trinity
		Notes
	8. The Cross in Jung and Balthasar
		Jung and the Cross
		Jung’s reading of the Cross and his theory of symbol formation
		Jung’s reading of the fairy tale ‘The Princess in the Tree’
		Jung’s further reflections on the Cross in Aion
		Balthasar and the Cross
			Kenosis
			Descensus
			Resurrection: kenosis–reconciliation
				Jung on resurrection
				Balthasar on resurrection
				The End
		Notes
Part IV: Conclusion
	9. A cruciform model for God’s
involvement with evil
		The relationship between Balthasar as a contextualizing
theologian and Jung as a reinterpretive psychologist
		Human experience and the divine action in
relation to evil
		How ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ interrelate
		The exception of the polarity of good and evil
		Descensus in Balthasar and Jung
		Concluding illustration: ‘The Crucifix that Spoke
to St Francis’
		Notes
	10. Summary
Bibliography
Index