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 iv
... creation - The inevitable " failure " of Nicholas of Cusa — The essence of the symbol - The constitution of man according to the New Testament — Love and gnosis in the crucified mediator — The human ternary and the opening of the heart ...
... creation - The inevitable " failure " of Nicholas of Cusa — The essence of the symbol - The constitution of man according to the New Testament — Love and gnosis in the crucified mediator — The human ternary and the opening of the heart ...
Page v
... Creation The Second Stage Contemplating God in His Vestiges in the Sense World 2 The Inevitable " Failure " of Nicholas of Cusa 3 The Essence of the Symbol The Third Stage Contemplating God through His Image Stamped upon Our Natural ...
... Creation The Second Stage Contemplating God in His Vestiges in the Sense World 2 The Inevitable " Failure " of Nicholas of Cusa 3 The Essence of the Symbol The Third Stage Contemplating God through His Image Stamped upon Our Natural ...
Page xi
... created being is a symbol insti- tuted , not by the arbitrariness of men , but by the divine will , to render visible the invisible wisdom of God , " as Hugh of St. Victor affiirms . 7 The decisive point , however , is not that created ...
... created being is a symbol insti- tuted , not by the arbitrariness of men , but by the divine will , to render visible the invisible wisdom of God , " as Hugh of St. Victor affiirms . 7 The decisive point , however , is not that created ...
Page xii
... created being as a symbol , a word or logos , which as such is an image of the primary Logos , the Di- vine Word that itself constitutes an " image " of the Father . And if now we recall that " All words derive their meaning from the ...
... created being as a symbol , a word or logos , which as such is an image of the primary Logos , the Di- vine Word that itself constitutes an " image " of the Father . And if now we recall that " All words derive their meaning from the ...
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... created himself , " 25 how can we gauge the tran- scendence of the gnostic state as he sees it ? Here we meet again the Islamic axiom according to which the Sufi is not created ( Es - Sufi lam yukhlaq ) .26 But , by the same token , it ...
... created himself , " 25 how can we gauge the tran- scendence of the gnostic state as he sees it ? Here we meet again the Islamic axiom according to which the Sufi is not created ( Es - Sufi lam yukhlaq ) .26 But , by the same token , it ...
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