C.G. Jung and Theology

This article by Paul Evdokimov offers a theological study of C. G. Jung's analytical psychology, examining its points of convergence and tension with the Eastern Christian tradition. The approach is one of critical and constructive reading: Evdokimov confronts the major Jungian categories — archetypes, collective unconscious, individuation, Selbst, Sophia — with patristic and biblical sources. The central idea is that Jung's psychology, although it methodologically limits itself to the manifestations of the psyche, intuitively converges with fundamental theological insights: the doctrine of the divine image, Christology, Sophiology, and eschatology. The article makes a twofold contribution: it shows that Eastern Christianity offers a doctrinal framework particularly suited to receiving and deepening Jungian thought, and it invites theologians to take seriously the questions that Jung addresses to contemporary Christian consciousness, particularly regarding evil, apokatastasis, and the destiny of creation.