The Secret of the Christian Way: A Contemplative Ascent through the Writings of Jean BorellaState University of New York 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 ix
... find his work remarkable as much for the breadth of its scope as for the unity of its message and focus . In a single critical survey , for instance , which commences with a penetrating inquiry into ancient and medieval cosmology , and ...
... find his work remarkable as much for the breadth of its scope as for the unity of its message and focus . In a single critical survey , for instance , which commences with a penetrating inquiry into ancient and medieval cosmology , and ...
Page x
... find it extremely difficult to believe in the truth of those sacred facts related to us by the Old and New Testaments . My entire philosophic thrust has sprung from the conviction which has imposed on me the duty to speculatively accept ...
... find it extremely difficult to believe in the truth of those sacred facts related to us by the Old and New Testaments . My entire philosophic thrust has sprung from the conviction which has imposed on me the duty to speculatively accept ...
Page xii
... find , thus , that in this respect as well , Borella's doctrine is profoundly Christian . But let us get back to the book at hand . The reader should be forewarned that the prologue is not an " easy " introduction to the rest of the ...
... find , thus , that in this respect as well , Borella's doctrine is profoundly Christian . But let us get back to the book at hand . The reader should be forewarned that the prologue is not an " easy " introduction to the rest of the ...
Page xiii
... find precious , and arouse in us a deep response - a kind of blissful excitation , I am tempted to say- that I would count among the most sublime attainments of our life . The transition , moreover , from philosophical speculation to ...
... find precious , and arouse in us a deep response - a kind of blissful excitation , I am tempted to say- that I would count among the most sublime attainments of our life . The transition , moreover , from philosophical speculation to ...
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Contents
5 | |
Trinity and Creation | 33 |
The Inevitable Failure of Nicholas of Cusa | 45 |
The Essence of the Symbol | 55 |
The Constitution of Man According to | 75 |
xvii | 93 |
The Human Ternary and the Opening of the Heart | 111 |
The Fifth Stage | 115 |
The Essence and Forms of the Body of Christ | 153 |
The Body of Christ and the Work of Salvation | 163 |
The Metaphysics of the Eternal Exposition | 173 |
Endnotes | 181 |
Select Bibliography | 205 |
in the Old Testament | 207 |
Scriptural Index | 213 |
The Trinitarian Functions of the Hypostases | 135 |
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