The Secret of the Christian Way: A Contemplative Ascent through the Writings of Jean BorellaA selection of key writings from the French religious philosopher, Jean Borella. 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. 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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Page vii
Is he a philosopher, first of all, or a theologian? 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 ...
Is he a philosopher, first of all, or a theologian? 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 ...
Page viii
We need however to ask ourselves what are the distinguishing features of this philosopher-theologian. ... Yet I would add immediately that even in the restricted class of Catholic philosophers and theologians—I mean those who are truly ...
We need however to ask ourselves what are the distinguishing features of this philosopher-theologian. ... Yet I would add immediately that even in the restricted class of Catholic philosophers and theologians—I mean those who are truly ...
Page xii
It thus regards the “offending” formulations of traditional theology in a manner exactly opposite to the reductionism of the “demythologizers”: it perceives in the very fact that these dogmatic utterances are bereft of “scientific” ...
It thus regards the “offending” formulations of traditional theology in a manner exactly opposite to the reductionism of the “demythologizers”: it perceives in the very fact that these dogmatic utterances are bereft of “scientific” ...
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indeed, what Borella has to offer, as we have begun to see, is neither philosophy nor theology as these disciplines are generally conceived nowadays, but in fact constitutes what can rightfully be termed doctrinalgnosis, something that ...
indeed, what Borella has to offer, as we have begun to see, is neither philosophy nor theology as these disciplines are generally conceived nowadays, but in fact constitutes what can rightfully be termed doctrinalgnosis, something that ...
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Having set out in search of the secret of Charity, one day I “encountered” trinitarian theology . . . I went back to ancient doctrines like a delighted child going from discovery to discovery, from treasure to treasure, from marvel to ...
Having set out in search of the secret of Charity, one day I “encountered” trinitarian theology . . . I went back to ancient doctrines like a delighted child going from discovery to discovery, from treasure to treasure, from marvel to ...
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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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| Title | The Secret of the Christian Way: A Contemplative Ascent through the Writings of Jean Borella SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions |
| Author | Jean Borella |
| Translated by | G. John Champoux |
| Contributor | Wolfgang Smith |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0791491188, 9780791491188 |
| Length | 215 pages |
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