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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... Christian way : a contemplative ascent through the writings of lean Borella / edited and translated by G. John Champoux. p. cm. — (SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. Contents ...
... Christian way : a contemplative ascent through the writings of lean Borella / edited and translated by G. John Champoux. p. cm. — (SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. Contents ...
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... Christ” 10 The “Body of Christ” and the Work of Salvation II The Metaphysics of the Eternal Exposition Endnotes Select Bibliography Name and Theme Index Scriptural Index 115 119 131 135 149 153 163 173 181 205 207 213 Foreword True to ...
... Christ” 10 The “Body of Christ” and the Work of Salvation II The Metaphysics of the Eternal Exposition Endnotes Select Bibliography Name and Theme Index Scriptural Index 115 119 131 135 149 153 163 173 181 205 207 213 Foreword True to ...
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... mission. Concerning Borella's stand in regard to the Second Vatican Council and its aftermath, I will note that it is this question, precisely, which has “provoked” his first book, La charité profanée (1979), THE SECRET OF THE CHRISTIAN ...
... mission. Concerning Borella's stand in regard to the Second Vatican Council and its aftermath, I will note that it is this question, precisely, which has “provoked” his first book, La charité profanée (1979), THE SECRET OF THE CHRISTIAN ...
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... Christ alludes when he said: “If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light” (Matt. 6:22). This is not the place to comment more fully upon the Platonist ... Christian. This follows already from the fact Foreword xi.
... Christ alludes when he said: “If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light” (Matt. 6:22). This is not the place to comment more fully upon the Platonist ... Christian. This follows already from the fact Foreword xi.
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... Christians “of tradition” as well as from Christians “of progress”—while, at the same time, it invites confusion with numberless groups and movements that have co-opted these—authentically Christianl—terms. It is absolutely necessary ...
... Christians “of tradition” as well as from Christians “of progress”—while, at the same time, it invites confusion with numberless groups and movements that have co-opted these—authentically Christianl—terms. It is absolutely necessary ...
Contents
| 5 | |
The First Stage | 29 |
The Second Stage | 41 |
The Third Stage | 71 |
The Fourth Stage 89 | 87 |
in the Old Testament | 103 |
The Fifth Stage | 115 |
The Sixth Stage | 131 |
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 |
Scriptural Index | 213 |
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