The onslaught of biblical criticism in the nineteenth century on the historical reliability of the Bible and the matching defence by conservatives concealed a shared assumption that the most important question about the Bible was whether it was

historically and literally true. More recently, however, there has been a recovery of another way of looking at it in which the important question is not ‘is it true?’ but rather ‘what does it mean?’

Wayne G. Rollins seeks to contribute to this process. His aim is to help people to approach scripture as a ‘soul book’, using the ideas of Jung to do this. He gives a biographical account of Jung's ideas and then proceeds to take particular themes, such as the soul, symbol, archetype, active imagination, and relate them to biblical material. The result is useful rather than original, but it is certainly a book to recommend to anyone stuck in a factual/historical attitude to the Bible—if they would read it.