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At the core of Christian dogma of the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit are one but they exist in three different person. However Christianity should wait almost four centuries for the formation of that dogma completely as there were many discussions and disputes. Church Fathers set forth their views actively as it contained not only Divinity and Christology but also Soteriology. Analytical Psychologist C.G. Jung also was interested in the dogma of the Trinity in Christianity and he wrote “A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity.” But his interest was on psychological point of view, so he insisted that the dogma of the Trinity showed the process of the mental development of human being on the Divinity: God the Father denotes the earlier state of consciousness when one was still a child, still dependent on a definite, ready-made pattern of existence. And God the Son denotes the later state of consciousness when one got the ability to discriminate and reflect. Finally, God the Holy Ghost denotes the mediator who reconciled the conflict between the early state of consciousness and the second stage. Moreover C.G. Jung suggested that the image of God should take another element which is the element of evil or that of feminine if it is able to represent the totality of God. As the image of God of the christianity is now so good and so masculine, there should be some deficit in it. But he insisted on the importance of the discrimination of the Godhead from the image of God. He thought that we can only say about the image of God, as we cannot know about the Godhead. It is difficult to accept the thought of Jung on divinity in Christian theology, but it can help us to integrate our various psychological factors, especially bad factors in practical terms.
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Trinity, dogma, salvation,Quaternity, the evil[the feminine]
