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 iv
... symbol — The constitution of man according to the New Testament — Love and gnosis in the crucified mediator — The human ternary and the opening of the heart in the Old Testament — Love of self and love of God — The Trinitarian functions ...
... symbol — The constitution of man according to the New Testament — Love and gnosis in the crucified mediator — The human ternary and the opening of the heart in the Old Testament — Love of self and love of God — The Trinitarian functions ...
Page v
... Symbol The Third Stage Contemplating God through His Image Stamped upon Our Natural Powers 4 The Constitution of Man According to the New Testament The Fourth Stage Contemplating God in His Image Reformed by the Gifts of Grace 5 Love ...
... Symbol The Third Stage Contemplating God through His Image Stamped upon Our Natural Powers 4 The Constitution of Man According to the New Testament The Fourth Stage Contemplating God in His Image Reformed by the Gifts of Grace 5 Love ...
Page ix
... me add that the reader of the present book will catch a glimpse of that doctrine in chapter 3 (“The Essence of the Symbol”), which however may not be fully comprehensible by itself. My advice: Absorb what you can and read on. Foreword ix.
... me add that the reader of the present book will catch a glimpse of that doctrine in chapter 3 (“The Essence of the Symbol”), which however may not be fully comprehensible by itself. My advice: Absorb what you can and read on. Foreword ix.
Page x
... symbolism cannot but be profoundly symbolic itself. Borella, most assuredly, is no “analytic” philosopher. No true metaphysician can be. In a small separate work entitled Symbolisme et rédlite', published in 1997, Borella recounts the ...
... symbolism cannot but be profoundly symbolic itself. Borella, most assuredly, is no “analytic” philosopher. No true metaphysician can be. In a small separate work entitled Symbolisme et rédlite', published in 1997, Borella recounts the ...
Page xi
... symbol instituted, not by the arbitrariness of men, but by the divine will, to render visible the invisible wisdom ... symbols, inseparably both “physical and semantic.” Not only, thus, do they “speak”: they are speech. What the Logos ...
... symbol instituted, not by the arbitrariness of men, but by the divine will, to render visible the invisible wisdom ... symbols, inseparably both “physical and semantic.” Not only, thus, do they “speak”: they are speech. What the Logos ...
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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