The Archetypal Christ

Reflecting on the philosophy of life of the individual and invoking concepts such as the Word made flesh, Memory, the offertory, everyday significance, and the author's own "will of creationism," The Archetypal Christ argues that all the world around us can be reduced to an image of God that is a divinely "organic image." Petty believes that the spectacular is embedded in nature and the representative divine, impulsively providing room for what we experience as the Beatific Vision, and other christic images in the archetypal imagination. Marrying Augustine's and Heidegger's philosophies, the experience of Christ today is a fallback into an aesthetically primordial reflection where Creation evidences its utterly true, ineffably real Being, the setting where we are processing our inherited primordial memories, whereby all Christian individuals embody an outpouring into the City of God. The Archetypal Christ is an offer today's thinker would be wise in choosing to accept.