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Summary: God bet with Satan on a human soul
Review: God made a bet with Satan that Job would always love Him, no matter what God did to Job. After seeing that Job never stopped loving God, no matter what horrors God heaped on him, God realized that humans had something going that God did not. Plus, He realized He'd trivially made a bet on a man's soul. God needed to experience humanity first hand to find out why, and so became human in the form of Jesus.This explanation caused Christianity to make sense to me. Although it is certainly no part of any church I have ever heard of, it is the one idea that could make me part of a church, if such a one existed.
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Summary: Profound and daring examination of the Christian God.
Review: I have read this book twice in ten years and will probably read it again. I like this book because Jung is expressing his feelings whilst using his immense experience and accumulated knowledge. Although many references are made to other sources, I do not feel as if I need to know very much more than the average person brought up in a mild Christian society, to gain substantial benefit from the book. What seems intense to me is the underlying issues of how we (as humans) relate to our sense of reality and justice. For me, this is not so much an answer to Job as a comprehension of the inherent correctness of the dilemma that Job is faced with. I gave this book a rating of 4 on a scale of 5 because I still do not feel that I understand fully what Jung is saying. But I am not sure that he is sure either. It certainly elucidates, for me, the very real dynamics between the conscious and the subconscious. I gives me insight into the difference between children's immediacy which can be without sympathy for the effect of their actions on the outside world, and the same immediacy that adults can attain with complete responsibility for the effect of their actions. Immensely supportive book and an important aid to self improvement, which is our inherent right as human beings. Don't expect to get all the benefits of this book for months or even years after reading it.
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Summary: Profound and daring examination of the Christian God.
Review: I have read this book twice in ten years and will probably read it again. I like this book because Jung is expressing his feelings whilst using his immense experience and accumulated knowledge. Although many references are made to other sources, I do not feel as if I need to know very much more than the average person brought up in a mild Christian society, to gain substantial benefit from the book. What seems intense to me is the underlying issues of how we (as humans) relate to our sense of reality and justice. For me, this is not so much an answer to Job as a comprehension of the inherent correctness of the dilemma that Job is faced with. I gave this book a rating of 4 on a scale of 5 because I still do not feel that I understand fully what Jung is saying. But I am not sure that he is sure either. It certainly elucidates, for me, the very real dynamics between the conscious and the subconscious. I gives me insight into the difference between children's immediacy which can be without sympathy for the effect of their actions on the outside world, and the same immediacy that adults can attain with complete responsibility for the effect of their actions. Immensely supportive book and an important aid to self improvement, which is our inherent right as human beings. Don't expect to get all the benefits of this book for months or even years after reading it.
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Summary: Interesting Psychology, NOT A WORK OF THEOLOGY
Review: I write this review as a caution to others who might consider taking up this book as a commentary on the Biblical Book of Job. This text is a fine example of Jungian psychology, from the pen of the man himself, and as such it deserves respect and a proper evaluation on psychological rather than theological grounds. However, this book is not and was never intended to be a work of theology of any sort, much less a piece if Biblical interpretation. Jung uses the contest between God and Satan for the soul of Job as a metaphor for his own theories about the processes of the unconscious and the innate structure of the human psyche. Those theories, in themselves, may be correct, but that is a highly dubious interpretation on the Scriptural work itself. Jung, to his credit, admits up front that he is not engaging in theology per se; alas, many of his readers don't seem to comprehend that. In short, if you are interested in Jungianism, this is a central work, but if you are looking for theology in general or a commentary on Job in particular, you should go elsewhere.
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Summary: The archtype of the acuser in full force
Review: Jung presents an interesting view of the book of Job, picking up on Job's affirmation that he doesn't deserve what's been dealt to him. But this book should be seen as mearly Jung's perception of the book, and as a reaction to a religion of Law, and not of Grace. He bases his interpretations on misquotations of the Bible and the apocrypha. I guess every power figure, even God, gets his words misrepresented in print.
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