The Gospel According to Fairbairn

Many Christians find religious texts as anchoring points in their lives. Not only do the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John provide a guideline to Christians on their road to religious maturity (Harrington, 2016) but also, according to Lathrop, they critique the communities (Dunkly, 2015). Other scholars like Adams (2013) approach the Gospels from a different angle by focusing on the comprehensive treatise of Jesus's life each Gospel provides and then exploring the general picture that the four of them depict. However, approaching the narrative of Jesus's life from a theological standpoint is not all but merely one approach an individual may choose to understand Jesus and his life. Thus, for example, while Archbishop (2002) approached the interpretation of the Bible as that which contributes to the church as a living being, Smith worked on Bultmann's commentary and offered a literary criticism of the Gospels (Bridges, 2009).

Finally, some attempted to interpret the life of Jesus from a depth psychology standpoint by understating the text as a psychic, rather than theological, reality because the theologian, historian, and psychologist approach the same topic from three different perspective. It needs to be reiterated that indubitably, any psychoanalyst and scholar attempting to interpret biblical texts would and should, as is the aim of this paper, approach it from the standpoint of psychic reality and leave the theological reality to the theologian. The most well-known of the former group is Carl Jung's interpretation of Christianity (Jung, 1958/2011). Jung approached the topic not from the standpoint of a theologian, but of a psychologist and focused on the meaning inherent in Christianity and the Christ as a symbol in the Western culture (Stein, 1999).

In the aforementioned process, one of the tenets of Jung's argument was perceiving the experience of inner wholeness on the one hand and the one of God on the other as experiences to be of the same qu