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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... Jesus " ascended " as the Church had maintained ? " In actuality , " Borella explains , " by our scientific certainties and their accompanying mental attitudes , all of us find it extremely difficult to believe in the truth of those ...
... Jesus " ascended " as the Church had maintained ? " In actuality , " Borella explains , " by our scientific certainties and their accompanying mental attitudes , all of us find it extremely difficult to believe in the truth of those ...
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... Jesus him- self not told us : " He that hath seen me hath seen the Father " ? And has not St. Paul said likewise : " For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily " ( col . 2 : 9 ) ? But where is the philosophy , where the ...
... Jesus him- self not told us : " He that hath seen me hath seen the Father " ? And has not St. Paul said likewise : " For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily " ( col . 2 : 9 ) ? But where is the philosophy , where the ...
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... Jesus ' is , under the form pre- sented , brazenly apocryphal in its artificial composition and in its fictitious attribution to Thomas , who in reality played only an episodic role . . . . Likewise we need to recognize . . . that the ...
... Jesus ' is , under the form pre- sented , brazenly apocryphal in its artificial composition and in its fictitious attribution to Thomas , who in reality played only an episodic role . . . . Likewise we need to recognize . . . that the ...
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... Jesus Christ ( in short , the realization of faith ) , and precisely because such knowledge , at least in its essence , is un- utterable , transcending every word , distinction , and formal aware- ness that we can have of it . This is ...
... Jesus Christ ( in short , the realization of faith ) , and precisely because such knowledge , at least in its essence , is un- utterable , transcending every word , distinction , and formal aware- ness that we can have of it . This is ...
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... Jesus Christ , all religious Revelation , and all belief in the immortal- ity of the soul ? 47 Analogous remarks could be made with respect to Hegel , whose doctrine is often qualified as a gnosis which , although finding religion ...
... Jesus Christ , all religious Revelation , and all belief in the immortal- ity of the soul ? 47 Analogous remarks could be made with respect to Hegel , whose doctrine is often qualified as a gnosis which , although finding religion ...
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