Once you read this book, your relationship with the Bible may be changed forever. Moonlight Shines in the Darkness will open your eyes to amazing aspects of the Gospel of John, and introduce you to a new, psychosymbolic way of seeing biblical texts. It's a way of reading that moves past both naïvely literal understandings and hypercritical explanations, opening us to powerful, transformative appropriations of the meaning offered by biblical texts.Moonlight Shines in the Darkness represents a coming together of Jungian psychology, feminism, and biblical studies. The fundamental assumption underlying the book is that the Bible is the living Word of God made manifest in symbolic literary texts. Indeed, it becomes possible for the Word to carry us into a transcendent realm of living experience only when we engage the symbolic depths of the biblical texts.The language of symbols is the language of the soul, the language of literature, the language of the Bible. Moonlight Shines in the Darkness shows readers how to read and understand this language. It demonstrates that significant feminine elements are pervasive in the Fourth Gospel's images of Christ, making creative contributions to Jungian, biblical, and feminist studies. The book's vivid style, lucid organization, and polished presentation make its scholarship easily accessible for specialists and non-specialists alike. The hope is that engaging the feminine elements in the symbolic images of Christ will bring to light new possibilities, which in turn will facilitate the advance of consciousness along the path toward wholeness.
About the Author: A biblical scholar, who has been a student of religion and Jungian psychology for more than 40 years, Robert Neuwoehner has published essays in Psychological Perspectives, a leading Jungian journal, and in Psychology and the Bible: A New Way to Read the Scriptures, a four-volume collection of writings by scholars working to define the emerging field of psychological biblical criticism. He has taught religious studies and humanities at the University of Denver, including the course "Religion and Jungian Psychology"; and he has presented papers at national and regional meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion. He earned his doctorate in the University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology Joint Ph.D. Program in Religious and Theological Studies, where his dissertation was nominated for the University of Denver's distinguished dissertation award. Now a resident of Castle Rock, Colorado, he is an active member of the local Episcopal church, where he leads a group of adults in weekly explorations of and engagements with biblical texts.