An exploration of the archetypal images from pagan mythology and from contemporary poetry that are embedded in the descriptions of Christ. Behind the image of the Good Shepherd lurks not just the figure of Pan, the god of pastoral care, but also Polyphemos, the one-eyed monstrous Cyclops. Behind Christ the Great Teacher there is not only Socrates, but also Silenos whose drunkenness intoxicates his teaching about dying. DAVID L. MILLER, Ph.D., is Watson-Ledden Professor of Religion, Emeritus at Syracuse University and served as a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara from 1991 until 2004. Since 1963, Dr. Miller has worked at the intersections of religions and mythologies, literature and literary theory, and depth psychology and theology. He was a member of the Eranos Circle from 1975 until 1988, and has lectured widely in Europe, America, and Japan for the last forty years. He is the author of Gods and Games: Towards a Theology of Play and The New Polytheism: Rebirth of the Gods and Goddesses