The Secret of the Christian Way: A Contemplative Ascent through the Writings of Jean Borella

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State 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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Contents

The Gnosis with a True Name
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
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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
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The Trinitarian Functions of the Hypostases
135

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About the author (2001)

Jean Borella is a retired Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Nancy II. He is the author of many books, including most recently, Le sens du surnaturel, Symbolisme et réalité, and Ésotérisme guénonien et mystère chrétien. G. John Champoux has also translated Jean Borella's The Sense of the Supernatural.

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