"Answer to Job": Evdokimov as a Reader of Jung
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This article by Joost van Rossum (Saint Sergius Institute) examines Paul Evdokimov's reading of Carl Gustav Jung's *Antwort auf Hiob* (1952), a work that had profoundly disturbed Christian theological circles. Proceeding through a comparative analysis of the two authors, van Rossum first reconstructs Jung's main theses — the archaic and antinomic figure of Yahweh, the role of Sophia, the psychological interpretation of the Incarnation and the Apocalypse — before showing how Evdokimov reinterprets them within an Orthodox and patristic framework. The central contribution of the article is to highlight the method of "purifying integration" characteristic of Evdokimov: rather than refuting Jung, he implicitly rewrites his insights by grounding them in Palamas's theology of divine energies, the Christology of Maximus the Confessor, and the sophiological tradition, while silently correcting the slippages between psychology and theology that van Rossum, for his part, explicitly identifies.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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