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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... First Stage 1 Trinity and Creation The Second Stage Contemplating God through His Vestiges in the Universe Contemplating God in His Vestiges in the Sense World 2 The Inevitable " Failure " of Nicholas of Cusa 3 The Essence of the Symbol ...
... First Stage 1 Trinity and Creation The Second Stage Contemplating God through His Vestiges in the Universe Contemplating God in His Vestiges in the Sense World 2 The Inevitable " Failure " of Nicholas of Cusa 3 The Essence of the Symbol ...
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... first of all , or a theolo- gian ? A professor of philosophy , he nonetheless is actually both . I would add that this should , by right , surprise no one , given that God is the first - and in a sense that needs to be clarified , the ...
... first of all , or a theolo- gian ? A professor of philosophy , he nonetheless is actually both . I would add that this should , by right , surprise no one , given that God is the first - and in a sense that needs to be clarified , the ...
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... first and foremost , a Catholic . Yet I would add immediately that even in the restricted class of Catholic philosophers and theologians - I mean those who are truly such , truly " in the tradition " -Borella stands out by virtue of two ...
... first and foremost , a Catholic . Yet I would add immediately that even in the restricted class of Catholic philosophers and theologians - I mean those who are truly such , truly " in the tradition " -Borella stands out by virtue of two ...
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... first book , La charité profanée ( 1979 ) , a work that unmasks and definitively refutes the miscon- ceptions rampant to this day within the postconciliar Church . Whosoever has read the prologue to that treatise will likely agree that ...
... first book , La charité profanée ( 1979 ) , a work that unmasks and definitively refutes the miscon- ceptions rampant to this day within the postconciliar Church . Whosoever has read the prologue to that treatise will likely agree that ...
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... statement is indeed the decisive intuition - bordering upon the mystical - that has given rise , first to his doctoral dissertation , and then to the entire sweep of his literary production . X THE SECRET OF THE CHRISTIAN WAY.
... statement is indeed the decisive intuition - bordering upon the mystical - that has given rise , first to his doctoral dissertation , and then to the entire sweep of his literary production . X THE SECRET OF THE CHRISTIAN WAY.
Contents
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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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