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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... leads beyond the phenomenal realm , beyond what Hindus might term the world of maya . But needless to say , sacred symbols can ful- fill this lofty function only for those who believe — a case indeed of credo ut intelltgam . This ...
... leads beyond the phenomenal realm , beyond what Hindus might term the world of maya . But needless to say , sacred symbols can ful- fill this lofty function only for those who believe — a case indeed of credo ut intelltgam . This ...
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... leads us , since some heretics claim the " Gnostic " title for themselves , to seek out its true meaning . Passing , in the first part , from the word to the thing itself , we will then be ready to understand how to distinguish true ...
... leads us , since some heretics claim the " Gnostic " title for themselves , to seek out its true meaning . Passing , in the first part , from the word to the thing itself , we will then be ready to understand how to distinguish true ...
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... lead us to an important discovery , a discovery which , strange to say , has not been thought of before . It consists of only a few words : the term Gnostic does not designate one's belonging to a sect or religious school ; it desig ...
... lead us to an important discovery , a discovery which , strange to say , has not been thought of before . It consists of only a few words : the term Gnostic does not designate one's belonging to a sect or religious school ; it desig ...
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... leads to the glorification of a vio- lence destructive to all of nature — in reality a revolt against the gift of Creation — and to that part maudite of which Georges Bataille sought to be the " prophet . " In the eighteenth chapter of ...
... leads to the glorification of a vio- lence destructive to all of nature — in reality a revolt against the gift of Creation — and to that part maudite of which Georges Bataille sought to be the " prophet . " In the eighteenth chapter of ...
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... The first point poses the question of doctrinal gnosis in general ; the second point leads us to respond to this situation . THEOLOGY Doctrinal Gnosis or the Gnostic Dimension of the Act The Gnosis with a True Name 17.
... The first point poses the question of doctrinal gnosis in general ; the second point leads us to respond to this situation . THEOLOGY Doctrinal Gnosis or the Gnostic Dimension of the Act The Gnosis with a True Name 17.
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