A psychoanalyst and episcopal priest presents a Jungian understanding of Christâs teaching in this revised edition of a spiritual classic. By showing how Jesusâ teachings relate to our inner depths, The Kingdom Within guides us toward a more conscious and creative life. John A. Sanford explores the significance of Jesusâ teachings for our interior lifeâthat inner reality that Jesus called âthe kingdom of God.â It is Sanfordâs conviction that contemporary Christianity has overlooked this inner dimension of Jesusâ teachings and so has lost touch with the human soul. Illustrated with case histories and dream material drawn from the authorâs 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 âmeans living in enslavement to what we donât know about ourselves,â and to follow the road of consciousness, which leads to âa great treasure waiting only to be discovered.â
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