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
... intellect , and enabled him , at the same time , to acquire a profound grasp of Vedantic , Taoist , and Islamic doctrines , of an authenticity rarely to be met in the West . It is however important to note that Borella has never ...
... intellect , and enabled him , at the same time , to acquire a profound grasp of Vedantic , Taoist , and Islamic doctrines , of an authenticity rarely to be met in the West . It is however important to note that Borella has never ...
Page xi
... intellect , that " single eye " to which Christ alludes when he said : " If therefore thine eye be single , thy whole body shall be full of light " ( Matt . 6:22 ) . This is not the place to comment more fully upon the Platon- ist ...
... intellect , that " single eye " to which Christ alludes when he said : " If therefore thine eye be single , thy whole body shall be full of light " ( Matt . 6:22 ) . This is not the place to comment more fully upon the Platon- ist ...
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... intellect and faith , Hegel and Ruyer , with quite differ- ent styles of approach — Ruyer did not care much for Hegel— intend to clear the way for " scientific " knowledge that is also , and by itself , a quasi - mystical participation ...
... intellect and faith , Hegel and Ruyer , with quite differ- ent styles of approach — Ruyer did not care much for Hegel— intend to clear the way for " scientific " knowledge that is also , and by itself , a quasi - mystical participation ...
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... intellect is naturally supernatural or supernaturally nat- ural . " For Revelation ( by definition supernatural ) to be welcomed into a believer's intellect , this intellect needs to have " natural " 54 forms of intelligibility at its ...
... intellect is naturally supernatural or supernaturally nat- ural . " For Revelation ( by definition supernatural ) to be welcomed into a believer's intellect , this intellect needs to have " natural " 54 forms of intelligibility at its ...
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... intellect . What this has to do with is , then , an intrinsically sacred or naturally su- pernatural intellectuality ; it involves those logoi spermatikoi , those " figures " of the Divine Word sown in every intellect ( the light of the ...
... intellect . What this has to do with is , then , an intrinsically sacred or naturally su- pernatural intellectuality ; it involves those logoi spermatikoi , those " figures " of the Divine Word sown in every intellect ( the light of the ...
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