I am not addressing myself to the happy possessors of faith, but to those many people for whom the light has gone out, the mystery has faded, and God is dead. For most of them there is no going back.

The Incarnation did not stop with Christ, but continues in and through us, and to understand our relation to the infinite is to realise the incarnation as an ongoing and continuing process.

In [the Christian West] grace comes from elsewhere; at all events from outside. Every other point of view is sheer heresy. Hence it is quite understandable why the human psyche is suffering from undervaluation. Anyone who dares to establish a connection between the psyche and the idea of God is immediately accused of ‘psychologism’ or suspected of

Science and philosophy have replaced religion as mainstream ‘belief systems’ of modernity; religion, based on an outdated and untranslated mythology, cannot hope to compete with modern systems of knowing; Christian religion has been based on the authority of tradition, and modern people do not care for tradition. Religion can only mean something ag

The dark side needs acknowledgement, and it is hardly going to get it from the Christian story, now that its identification with an image of light and goodness is set in stone.

Jung's seminal essay ‘Answer to Job’ is an impassioned plea for allowing more of the feminine into our image of the divine.

But Heidegger wrote at length about the ‘darkening of the world’ (Weltverdüsterung) and argued that this was connected with the darkening of spirit (Geist).

evil could be reduced only if we got closer to it and became more familiar with it.

Religions are psychotherapeutic systems in the truest sense of the word, and on the grandest scale. They express the whole range of the psychic problem in mighty images; they are the avowal and recognition of the soul, and at the same time the revelation of the soul's nature. From this universal foundation no human soul is cut off.