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 viii
... things like X-rays and bring to light the divine bones in them. This is why every thinker must be religious.” Now, Borella, most assuredly, is among those whose “thought and love” does penetrate to the divine bones. We need however to ...
... things like X-rays and bring to light the divine bones in them. This is why every thinker must be religious.” Now, Borella, most assuredly, is among those whose “thought and love” does penetrate to the divine bones. We need however to ...
Page xi
... things, by virtue of their existence, render visible the wisdom of God, but rather that they exist precisely by virtue of this symbolic act. In short, created beings are symbols, inseparably both “physical and semantic.” Not only, thus ...
... things, by virtue of their existence, render visible the wisdom of God, but rather that they exist precisely by virtue of this symbolic act. In short, created beings are symbols, inseparably both “physical and semantic.” Not only, thus ...
Page xii
... things, and by Him all things consist” (Col. 1:17). However, there is more to be said: for it appears that Borella's doctrine is not simply logocentric or Christocentric, but is, on a still deeper level, perforce Trinitarian. It ...
... things, and by Him all things consist” (Col. 1:17). However, there is more to be said: for it appears that Borella's doctrine is not simply logocentric or Christocentric, but is, on a still deeper level, perforce Trinitarian. It ...
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... thing itself, we will then be ready to understand how to distinguish true gnosis from its deviated and diabolic forms. Then, once we have reestablished the accuracy of historical perspectives and determined the specific nature of the ...
... thing itself, we will then be ready to understand how to distinguish true gnosis from its deviated and diabolic forms. Then, once we have reestablished the accuracy of historical perspectives and determined the specific nature of the ...
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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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