The Secret of the Christian Way: A Contemplative Ascent through the Writings of Jean BorellaSUNY Press, 2001 M02 1 - 215 pages Gathering key writings from the French religious philosopher Jean Borella s works, this book moves the reader from the immediacy of the physical world to a world deep within ourselves. Throughout Borella s writings, there is a resurrectional power to his words, a way of seeing things that makes all things new, that endows us with an ability to look anew on Christ and his Body the Church. Translator and editor G. John Champoux has used a selection from Saint Bonaventure s The Soul s Journey into God to preface each of Borella s writings and to show how these insights can take us from our ordinary surroundings into our innermost world. |
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Page iv
... Church . 2. Borella , Jean - Religion . I. Champoux , G. John , 1946- II . Title . III . Series . B2430.B58761 C48 2001 230'.2 - dc21 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 00-033838 Foreword Preface Contents vii XV xvii Acknowledgments Prologue The Gnosis.
... Church . 2. Borella , Jean - Religion . I. Champoux , G. John , 1946- II . Title . III . Series . B2430.B58761 C48 2001 230'.2 - dc21 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 00-033838 Foreword Preface Contents vii XV xvii Acknowledgments Prologue The Gnosis.
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... Church today , which is to bring her teach- ing - timeless in its essence - into harmony with all that is true and profound in the doctrines of the East . Only by bringing this task to completion , I believe , can the Church realize and ...
... Church today , which is to bring her teach- ing - timeless in its essence - into harmony with all that is true and profound in the doctrines of the East . Only by bringing this task to completion , I believe , can the Church realize and ...
Page ix
... Church . Whosoever has read the prologue to that treatise will likely agree that no more penetrating and poignant denunciation of the con- temporary betrayal has ever been penned . And yet — as is already suggested by what has ...
... Church . Whosoever has read the prologue to that treatise will likely agree that no more penetrating and poignant denunciation of the con- temporary betrayal has ever been penned . And yet — as is already suggested by what has ...
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... Church had maintained ? " In actuality , " Borella explains , " by our scientific certainties and their accompanying mental attitudes , all of us find it extremely difficult to believe in the truth of those sacred facts related to us by ...
... Church had maintained ? " In actuality , " Borella explains , " by our scientific certainties and their accompanying mental attitudes , all of us find it extremely difficult to believe in the truth of those sacred facts related to us by ...
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... Church , with Clement of Alexandria one of its earliest representatives ; but I also wish to show , by a thematic blend- ing of the material chosen from Borella's work , a " practical " or rather " practicible " outline of the labor of ...
... Church , with Clement of Alexandria one of its earliest representatives ; but I also wish to show , by a thematic blend- ing of the material chosen from Borella's work , a " practical " or rather " practicible " outline of the labor of ...
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