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 xi
... existence , render visible the wisdom of God , but rather that they exist precisely by virtue of this symbolic act . In short , created beings are symbols , inseparably both " physical and semantic . " Not only , thus , do they " speak ...
... existence , render visible the wisdom of God , but rather that they exist precisely by virtue of this symbolic act . In short , created beings are symbols , inseparably both " physical and semantic . " Not only , thus , do they " speak ...
Page xiv
... existence — and of the spiritual way ! —prefigured or somehow rooted in what Borella terms le mys- tere du signe ? It is to be noted that the relation of Borella's philoso- phy to sacred symbols is itself dual : on the one hand , as I ...
... existence — and of the spiritual way ! —prefigured or somehow rooted in what Borella terms le mys- tere du signe ? It is to be noted that the relation of Borella's philoso- phy to sacred symbols is itself dual : on the one hand , as I ...
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... existence of a way of gno- sis ( in the proper sense of the term ) within the bosom of Christian- ity . To avoid misunderstandings , however , we need to take them into account as much as possible , although some criticism stems from a ...
... existence of a way of gno- sis ( in the proper sense of the term ) within the bosom of Christian- ity . To avoid misunderstandings , however , we need to take them into account as much as possible , although some criticism stems from a ...
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... existence should not be doubted or other esoteric currents , issuing in particular from Zoroastrianism and from an Egyptian tradition well on its way to degeneration . In their analyses of the facts , historians are , in a gen- eral way ...
... existence should not be doubted or other esoteric currents , issuing in particular from Zoroastrianism and from an Egyptian tradition well on its way to degeneration . In their analyses of the facts , historians are , in a gen- eral way ...
Page 13
... existence of a deviated esoterism proves the need for and the danger of forget- ting caution . To go inward , is to go toward the Spirit ; doing this , we pierce through the forms and , at least in certain respects , in- wardly abandon ...
... existence of a deviated esoterism proves the need for and the danger of forget- ting caution . To go inward , is to go toward the Spirit ; doing this , we pierce through the forms and , at least in certain respects , in- wardly abandon ...
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