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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... gives rise to confusion and misunder- standing , when there is a clear and unequivocal one . Although not irrelevant , these objections seem to undermine my general thesis : namely , the legitimate existence of a way of gno- sis ( in ...
... gives rise to confusion and misunder- standing , when there is a clear and unequivocal one . Although not irrelevant , these objections seem to undermine my general thesis : namely , the legitimate existence of a way of gno- sis ( in ...
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... give themselves up to the most ignoble and bestial practices . Here we rediscover a well - known modern current which , in the line of the tiresome Marquis de Sade , leads to the glorification of a vio- lence destructive to all of ...
... give themselves up to the most ignoble and bestial practices . Here we rediscover a well - known modern current which , in the line of the tiresome Marquis de Sade , leads to the glorification of a vio- lence destructive to all of ...
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... give gnosis of sal- vation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins ” ( Luke 1 : 76-77 ) . Along with the ... gives this gnosis of salvation , and the " child " is that which is the most original and seems to be that which is ...
... give gnosis of sal- vation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins ” ( Luke 1 : 76-77 ) . Along with the ... gives this gnosis of salvation , and the " child " is that which is the most original and seems to be that which is ...
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... gives the key to this analogical reversal that is as if the " signature " of the Forerunner : " Among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist ; yet he who is least in the king- dom of heaven is greater ...
... gives the key to this analogical reversal that is as if the " signature " of the Forerunner : " Among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist ; yet he who is least in the king- dom of heaven is greater ...
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