The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God's Inner Journey [Hardcover]

Jungian analyst Gellert crafts a psychobiography of the Abrahamic God across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in this perceptive study. . . . [His] work offers a bridge between the present-yet-harsh God found in the Bible and the seemingly-absent-but-ever-loving God contemporary churches, mosques, and synagogues worship.Publishers WeeklyThis remarkable book is so full of intelligence, insight, and startling humor that I wanted to read every other page out loud to someone else. In his keen analysis of the divine mind, Michael Gellert not only led me to a new understanding of what it means to be made in Gods image (with our neuroses and all), but he also gave me fresh compassion for what a very hard job it is to be God.Barbara Brown Taylor, Episcopal priest, professor, and New York Times bestselling-author of Holy Envy and Learning to Walk in the Dark?Gellert reads Gods inner journey from the pages of scriptureJewish, Christian, and Musliminto its continuation in three mystical traditions and on down to our own day. An engrossing account, enriched by Jungian psychology, that makes Gods journey a persuasive metaphor for our own.Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of God: A Biography?In this fascinating account, Gellert applies depth psychology and trauma theory to Yahwehs inner journey from trauma to redemption, a journey that parallels the evolution of our consciousness as well. This creative, engaging book seems especially relevant to our time, when the Abrahamic religions and their patriarchal assumptions are so frequently in our daily news cycleseeking transformation and redemption like the Yahwistic God himself.Donald Kalsched, author of The Inner World of Trauma and Trauma and the Soul?Gellert thoughtfully critiques the literal image of the biblical Godso filled with complexities and oppositesand traces its evolution to a more holistic image in the writings of the mystics of all three Abrahamic religions. Filled with psychological insl“ä