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
... light the divine bones in them . This is why every thinker must be religious . " Now , Borella , most as- suredly , is among those whose " thought and love " does penetrate to the divine bones . We need however to ask ourselves what are ...
... light the divine bones in them . This is why every thinker must be religious . " Now , Borella , most as- suredly , is among those whose " thought and love " does penetrate to the divine bones . We need however to ask ourselves what are ...
Page xi
... light " ( Matt . 6:22 ) . This is not the place to comment more fully upon the Platon- ist doctrine that stands at the heart of Borella's work . Suffice it to say that the formulation of that doctrine — to the extent that it can be thus ...
... light " ( Matt . 6:22 ) . This is not the place to comment more fully upon the Platon- ist doctrine that stands at the heart of Borella's work . Suffice it to say that the formulation of that doctrine — to the extent that it can be thus ...
Page xiv
... light of common day , or measured by the stan- dards of our accustomed rationality , nothing , surely , could be more absurd . No wonder Borella speaks of a " formidable challenge " ! As I have noted before , what enlightens and ...
... light of common day , or measured by the stan- dards of our accustomed rationality , nothing , surely , could be more absurd . No wonder Borella speaks of a " formidable challenge " ! As I have noted before , what enlightens and ...
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... light into this realm where it touches on the essence of Christian gnosis . Si- mone Petrement has observed that , among the Gnostics , gnosis " is not knowledge in general , " but a " religious knowledge , based on a revelation . ” And ...
... light into this realm where it touches on the essence of Christian gnosis . Si- mone Petrement has observed that , among the Gnostics , gnosis " is not knowledge in general , " but a " religious knowledge , based on a revelation . ” And ...
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... light of the Word " enlightens every man . . . coming into this world " [ John 1 : 9 ] ) , and is therefore a kind of inward and congenital revelation through those intellective icons — the metaphysical Ideas — imma- nent to the soul ...
... light of the Word " enlightens every man . . . coming into this world " [ John 1 : 9 ] ) , and is therefore a kind of inward and congenital revelation through those intellective icons — the metaphysical Ideas — imma- nent to the soul ...
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