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By showing how Jesus' teachings relate to our inner depths, this book guides us toward a more conscious and creative life. The Kingdom Within explores the significance of Jesus' teachings for our interior life -- that inner reality that Jesus called "the kingdom of God." It is Sanford's conviction that contemporary Christianity has overlooked this inner dimension of Jesus' teachings and so has lost touch with the human soul.
Illustrated with case histories and dream material drawn from the author's work as a psychotherapist, The Kingdom Within examines such characteristics as extroversion and introversion, masculinity and femininity, thinking and feeling, and sensation and intuition to show how Jesus met the criteria of wholeness or fullness of personhood. Step by step, Sanford helps us to shed the outer mask, to eschew sin, which "means living in enslavement to what we don't know about ourselves," and to follow the road of consciousness, which leads to "a great treasure waiting only to be discovered."
In this modern spiritual classic, analyst and Episcopal priest John Sanford applies a Jungian perspective to Christ’s teachings. The Kingdom Within looks at the ways Jesus’s teachings affect our interior life – that inner reality that he called “the Kingdom of God.” Sanford argues that in overlooking this inner dimension, contemporary Christianity has lost touch with the human soul.
Illustrated with case histories and dream material drawn from the author’s work as a psychotherapist, The Kingdom Within examines extroversion and introversion, masculinity and femininity, thinking and feeling, and sensation and intuition to show how Jesus met the criteria of wholeness of personhood. Sanford helps us to eschew sin, which “means living in enslavement to what we don’t know about ourselves,” and to follow the road of consciousness, which leads to “a great treasure waiting to be discovered.” John A. Sanford (1929-2005) was a Jungian analyst and Episcopal priest. His books include Dreams and Healing, The Invisible Partners, and the novel Song of the Meadowlark.You may also like
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