DAVID L. MILLER

David Miller’s teaching and writing are in the areas of Religion and Myth, Depth Psychology and Literary Theory. Miller is the author of more than two hundred and forty articles as well as five books, including Gods and Games: Towards a Theology of Play (1970), The New Polytheism: Rebirth of the Gods and Goddesses (1974), Christs: Archetypal Images in Christian Theology (1981), Three Faces of God (1986), and Hells and Holy Ghosts (1989). He is also the editor of Interpretation: The Poetry of Meaning (1967) and Jung and the Interpretation of the Bible (1995).
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THREE FACES OF GOD
Traces of the Trinity in Literature and Life

Third, revised edition 2026
Paperback original, 176 pages, $20
ISBN: 978-0-88214-238-8
E-book edition, $9.99
ISBN: 978-0-88214-242-5
This book provides a demonstration that the difficult notion of the Trinity is alive and well, although not in places that one may have expected. It flourishes in a mythology recovered from an ancient pagan past and, surprisingly, in secular poetry and drama of our own time, even though it is often neglected in popular piety and in academic theology.

How is it possible to understand a oneness that is three? or a threeness that is, at bottom, one? Even more problematic, how might a person believe in a God who insists on being imagined monotheistically (as one), but who persists in manifesting himself in history polytheistically (as three)?
    In spite of these difficulties, even logical impossibilities, the Trinity is alive and well, although not in places one might have expected. The notion flourishes in a mythology recovered from an ancient pagan past and in a secular literature of our own most recent times … These resources, as we shall see throughout the pages of this book, support a trinitarian view of the world and its life.
—from the author's INTRODUCTION

In David Miller’s deft hands, theology becomes the most crucial part of depth psychology. He breaks the vessels and pulls down the idols, performing a therapy of thought that releases the soul’s native religious function into the excitement of new imaginings.
—JAMES HILLMAN
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THE NEW POLYTHEISM
Rebirth of the Gods and Goddesses

Third, revised edition 2021
Paperback original, 124 pages, $20
ISBN: 978-0-88214-939-4
E-book edition, $9.99
ISBN: 978-0-88214-944-8
Following in the archetypal psychology tradition of James Hillman, this work by David L. Miller argues that the traditional psychotherapeutic goal of an integrated whole is monotheistic. He argues instead for a polytheistic theology that is psychological, iconoclastic, and gnostic and views the mythos of gods and goddesses imaginally, as a theologica imaginalis, a perspective for which Gaston Bachelard and Henry Corbin laid the philosophical foundation.
   This newly revised edition includes a Prefatory Letter by Corbin and an Appendix by Hillman.
“A book you dare not miss.”
   —Le Monde (June 5, 1979)
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HELLS AND HOLY GHOSTS
A Theopoetics of Christian Belief

Second, revised edition
(Winter 2026/27)
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CHRISTS
Meditations on Archetypal Images in Christian Theology

Third, revised edition
(Winter 2026/27)