{The Archetypal Christ}[10th June 1989]

[Redbook6:137][19890610:1020]{The Archetypal Christ}[10th June 1989]

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If St. John’s Gospel is the latest,* then it is tempting to write it off as simply unhistorical or (as some of the contributors to ‘The Myth of God Incarnate’** would have it) mythological. But I can see it as more than mythological: as the first full flowering of the inner, the archetypal Christ, Christ rooted in his own terrestrial history but by the time of St. John’s Gospel taking on a life of his own within the minds of Men. Unless such a process occur and continue, Christianity could not and cannot exist.

But the qualities of – the Quality that is – this Risen Christ[,] must always be founded in – found in – the historical Jesus, so far as we can recall him.

*[gospel]

*[‘The Myth of God Incarnate’, ed. John Hicks, SCM, 1977.]

{My mother came to stay from 22^nd to 25^th June – the first time I had seen her since October 1986. <890630>}

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