The Secret of the Christian Way: A Contemplative Ascent through the Writings of Jean BorellaSUNY 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
... 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 Foreword ix.
... 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 Foreword ix.
Page xvii
... Chapters 1 , 4-8 were originally published in La charite pro- fanee , ( Editions Dominique Martin Morin ) . With ... Chapter 3 was originally published in Le mystere du signe ( Edi- tions Maisonneuve et Larose , 1989 ) , pp . 75-89 ...
... Chapters 1 , 4-8 were originally published in La charite pro- fanee , ( Editions Dominique Martin Morin ) . With ... Chapter 3 was originally published in Le mystere du signe ( Edi- tions Maisonneuve et Larose , 1989 ) , pp . 75-89 ...
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... chapter of his Panarion , entitled " The Gnostics , " St. Epiphanius relates a few of these practices , during the course of which veritable parodies of the Eucharist are en- acted . Men and women , after copulating , gather the sperm ...
... chapter of his Panarion , entitled " The Gnostics , " St. Epiphanius relates a few of these practices , during the course of which veritable parodies of the Eucharist are en- acted . Men and women , after copulating , gather the sperm ...
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... chapter of Genesis.40 This chapter recounts how certain angels coveted the " daughters of men " and united with them . Now there is , in fact , one text among others of the Hermetic tradition that re- lates this mysterious event to Set ...
... chapter of Genesis.40 This chapter recounts how certain angels coveted the " daughters of men " and united with them . Now there is , in fact , one text among others of the Hermetic tradition that re- lates this mysterious event to Set ...
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... chapters of Genesis , involves a cosmology , and even a metaphysics , which gnosis specifically takes as an object of formulation , but it is not only that . We should also see here a speculative dimension subjacent to Christian ...
... chapters of Genesis , involves a cosmology , and even a metaphysics , which gnosis specifically takes as an object of formulation , but it is not only that . We should also see here a speculative dimension subjacent to Christian ...
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