The Kingdom Within
The Inner Meanings of Jesus' Sayings
John A. Sanford
- A
- psychoanalyst
- and
- episcopal
- priest
- presents
- a
- Jungian
- understanding
- of
- Christ’s
- teaching
- in
- this
- revised
- edition
- of
- a
- spiritual
- classic.By
- showing
- how
- Jesus’
- teachings
- relate
- to
- our
- inner
- depths,
- The
- Kingdom
- Within
- guides
- us
- toward
- a
- more
- conscious
- and
- creative
- life.
- John
- A.
- Sanford
- explores
- the
- significance
- of
- Jesus’
- teachings
- for
- our
- interior
- life—that
- inner
- reality
- that
- Jesus
- called
- “the
- kingdom
- of
- God.”
- It
- is
- Sanford’s
- conviction
- that
- contemporary
- Christianity
- has
- overlooked
- this
- inner
- dimension
- of
- Jesus’
- teachings
- and
- so
- has
- lost
- touch
- with
- the
- human
- soul.Illustrated
- with
- case
- histories
- and
- dream
- material
- drawn
- from
- the
- author’s
- work
- as
- a
- psychotherapist,
- The
- Kingdom
- Within
- examines
- such
- characteristics
- as
- extroversion
- and
- introversion,
- masculinity
- and
- femininity,
- thinking
- and
- feeling,
- and
- sensation
- and
- intuition
- to
- show
- how
- Jesus
- met
- the
- criteria
- of
- wholeness
- or
- fullness
- of
- personhood.
- Step
- by
- step,
- Sanford
- helps
- us
- to
- shed
- the
- outer
- mask,
- to
- eschew
- sin,
- which
- “means
- living
- in
- enslavement
- to
- what
- we
- don’t
- know
- about
- ourselves,”
- and
- to
- follow
- the
- road
- of
- consciousness,
- which
- leads
- to
- “a
- great
- treasure
- waiting
- only
- to
- be discovered.”
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