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 ix
... truth. I find his work remarkable as much for the breadth of its scope as for the unity of its message and focus. In a single critical survey, for instance, which commences with a penetrating inquiry into ancient and medieval cosmology ...
... truth. I find his work remarkable as much for the breadth of its scope as for the unity of its message and focus. In a single critical survey, for instance, which commences with a penetrating inquiry into ancient and medieval cosmology ...
Page x
... truth of those sacred facts related to us by the Old and New Testaments. My entire philosophic thrust has sprung from the conviction which has imposed on me the duty to speculatively accept this formidable challenge.“ As Borella goes on ...
... truth of those sacred facts related to us by the Old and New Testaments. My entire philosophic thrust has sprung from the conviction which has imposed on me the duty to speculatively accept this formidable challenge.“ As Borella goes on ...
Page xi
... truth applies not only to linguistic propositions, but also to “things.”8 As one can readily understand, the implications of this “symbolic realism” are simply immense; there is hardly a philosophical question that is not illumined, and ...
... truth applies not only to linguistic propositions, but also to “things.”8 As one can readily understand, the implications of this “symbolic realism” are simply immense; there is hardly a philosophical question that is not illumined, and ...
Page xii
... truth proclaimed by St. Paul: “And He is before all 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 ...
... truth proclaimed by St. Paul: “And He is before all 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 ...
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... truth, I thought that I had forestalled these criticisms, both by showing, with the help of historical argument, that the word gnosis was scriptural in origin and therefore basically Christian, and by maintaining that there is no real ...
... truth, I thought that I had forestalled these criticisms, both by showing, with the help of historical argument, that the word gnosis was scriptural in origin and therefore basically Christian, and by maintaining that there is no real ...
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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