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 viii
... appears that at the age of fourteen he was already occupied with the Meditations of Descartes , and by the time he encountered the writings of Rene Guenon1 during his college years could discern that the latter was , in essence ...
... appears that at the age of fourteen he was already occupied with the Meditations of Descartes , and by the time he encountered the writings of Rene Guenon1 during his college years could discern that the latter was , in essence ...
Page xii
... appears that Borella's doctrine is not simply logocentric or Christocentric , but is , on a still deeper level , perforce Trinitarian . It constitutes for this reason a Christian metaphysics in the fullest sense , and one might well ...
... appears that Borella's doctrine is not simply logocentric or Christocentric , but is , on a still deeper level , perforce Trinitarian . It constitutes for this reason a Christian metaphysics in the fullest sense , and one might well ...
Page xiii
... appears in fact that Borella's philosophical re- flections typically tend to culminate in exegetical commentary on some scriptural passage or theological theme ; and I would add that when this happens one is invariable struck by the ...
... appears in fact that Borella's philosophical re- flections typically tend to culminate in exegetical commentary on some scriptural passage or theological theme ; and I would add that when this happens one is invariable struck by the ...
Page 9
... appears to both sides as the worst corruption of the faith and the greatest danger that it has ever or may ever run : " eternal gno- sis . " 17 For gnosis is eternal . It is always reborn from its ashes and therefore must always and ...
... appears to both sides as the worst corruption of the faith and the greatest danger that it has ever or may ever run : " eternal gno- sis . " 17 For gnosis is eternal . It is always reborn from its ashes and therefore must always and ...
Page 13
... appear , outwardly , as a surpassing of this crucifying duality , and , therefore , as the right to escape from its jurisdiction : to the pure , all things are pure . Do not be misled ; this is exactly where the initiatic test , the ...
... appear , outwardly , as a surpassing of this crucifying duality , and , therefore , as the right to escape from its jurisdiction : to the pure , all things are pure . Do not be misled ; this is exactly where the initiatic test , the ...
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