Wallace Clift

Wallace Bruce Clift, Jr. (March 27, 1926 – February 5, 2018) was an American priest and academic. He was the author of several books and articles in the field of the psychology of religion and a professor emeritus at the University of Denver, where he chaired the Department of Religion for many years. He lectured and gave workshops extensively in the United States, Australia, Europe, and Asia on such topics as Jungian psychology, Christian theology, pilgrimage, spiritual growth, dream interpretation, journaling, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Clift published six books, three of which were co-authored with his wife, the Reverend Jean Dalby Clift.

Early career and education Clift earned a bachelor's degree with honors in economics and government from the University of Texas at Austin in 1949.

In 1964, Clift received a Farish Foundation grant to study the psychology of Carl Jung. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School with his dissertation "Psychological and Biblical-Theological Perspectives on Hope from the Viewpoints of C. G. Jung and John Knox".

Academic career Clift taught psychology of religion at the University of Denver from 1969 to 1992, and in 1981 helped start its joint Ph.D. program in religious and theological studies with the Iliff School of Theology. Clift co-founded the C. G. Jung Society of Colorado in 1976, and served as its first president. After his retirement from the University of Denver in 1992, Clift was appointed Canon Theologian of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado and invited to head the Anglican Studies program at St. Thomas Theological Seminary. When St. Thomas closed in 1995, Clift and the Episcopal diocesan bishop negotiated the Anglican Studies program's move to the Methodist Iliff School of Theology, where Clift continued to head the program for another seven years. Church Divinity School of the Pacific awarded Clift an honorary doctorate in 2003. Clift served as President of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado from 1989 to 1990

Publications

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Articles

Encyclopedia entries Clift, Wallace (1987). "Child"; "Rejuvenation"; "Vierkandt, Alfred"; and "Wundt, Wilhelm" in Encyclopedia of Religion. (Eliade, Mircea, ed.) New York: Macmillan. Clift, Jean Dalby; Clift, Wallace (2012). "Symbols of Transformation in Dreams" in Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. 2nd ed. (Leeming, D., ed.) Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.