Natural Spirituality: Recovering the Wisdom Tradition in Christianity - Softcover

Joyce Hudson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893383555 ISBN 13: 9781893383555

Publisher: Chiron Publications, 2001

Synopsis

Natural Spirituality moves Jungian dream work from the professional world of the analyst's office into the everyday world of the laity in the local church. The book offers serious Christians in every community an opportunity to embark upon the spiritual path of individuation. With clarity and simplicity Joyce Hudson puts into her reader's hands the tools for inner work that Carl Jung offered to Christianity.

Joyce Hudson then goes beyond Jung to present original models of masculine and feminine wholeness. In illustrating the masculine model, she offers an analysis of the lives and music of the Beatles that is both insightful and entertaining. To illustrate the model of feminine wholeness, Hudson joins ranks with C.S. Lewis, Robert Johnson, Marie-Louise von Franz, and Erich Neumann in putting forth her own interpretation of the classical myth of Psyche and Eros. Finally, she offers detailed advice and helpful resources for instituting continuing programs for inner work in local churches. While maintaining deep respect for Church tradition, this highly readable work opens the door for an expanded and enlivened Christianity.

About this title

About the Author:

Joyce Rockwood Hudson is the founder and director of the Natural Spirituality Program at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Athens, Georgia. She is the author of seven books, including the award-winning novel, To Spoil the Sun, as well as Apalachee, about a Native American wise woman in the early colonial South.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chiron Publications
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1893383555
• ISBN 13: 9781893383555
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 308