The implications of C. G. Jung's critique of the symbol of trinity

The Jung‐White dialogue and why it couldn't work and won't go away

“…By it Jung means that in the symbol of the crucified Christ the psychological and the religious come to coincide and the form of their coincidence is the movement of history to the resolution in consciousness of that divinely based antinomy that divinity could neither perceive nor resolve in eternity. On this point more research needs to be done on Jung's dependence on the mystic, Jacob Boehme, whose experience convinced him that only in humanity and not in the Trinity were the divinely based opposites capable of reunion (Dourley 1995).…”

“…Jung into Christianity simply did not go. Jung's shift to the Spirit of the quaternity embraced and divinized more of reality than the Christian Spirit could (Dourley 1994). Christianity had defined and, in so doing, pathologized itself through the exclusion of the gnostics, the alchemists, the seekers of the grail and many of its own mystics.…”

“…Following Jung's lead should all these conflicting faiths be traced to their common origin in the human psyche they would be relativized as expression of a common unconscious provenance. Such relativization would make a serious contribution to the emergence of a consciousness that would deprive faith communities of their still lethal force in relationship to each other (Dourley 2003).…”