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Behind this book lies the Gulf War, and the Editor's conviction that ‘At a time when religious faith has played its part in violent political difficulties in many parts of the globe, it is valuable, as an act of peaceful intent, to consider the unity in variety of the three monotheisms’ (p. 1).
In Part 1, Vera von der Heydt contributes a clear, if largely uncritical account of Jung's religious experience; Leon Schlamm assesses Jung's debt to Rudolf Otto; and Murray Stein, in an oddly superficial paper, offers a brisk assault on the monotheisms, before unveiling his icon for the coming era - this under the suggestively ambivalent title, ‘The dream of wholeness’.
In Part 2, ‘Judaism’, Gustav Dreifuss describes the inner and outer journeys which led him from Zurich to Israel. This is the only autobiographical piece in the book, so it has immediate authority. Siegmund Hurwitz and Freema Gottlieb relate certain strands of Kabbalistic thought to Jung's ideas about the dark face of God, and the Feminine; and Levi Meier offers an evocative midrash on the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4), using the Jacob story to illustrate the processes of struggle and transformation through which individual Jews may discover their identity as ‘Israel’.
In Part 3, ‘Christianity’, Ann Ulanov provides an informed account of the Christian experience of prayer, well illustrated by reference to Jung. This is fluent and authoritative, but Jung is tamed to fit Christian orthodoxy. Joel Ryce-Menuhin tackles ‘Answer to Job’, finding parallels between God's relationship with Job and certain omnipotent/dependent