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 vii
... mystery , moreover , which confronts us at every stage , is also , and above all , a mystery of change , of transformation — of spiritual alchemy ; indeed , it is ulti- mately " the secret of the Christian way . " Up till now Borella ...
... mystery , moreover , which confronts us at every stage , is also , and above all , a mystery of change , of transformation — of spiritual alchemy ; indeed , it is ulti- mately " the secret of the Christian way . " Up till now Borella ...
Page x
... mysteries elicited from me what seemed to be a self - evident response : beyond the divisions and oppositions of analytic reason stands the truth of the real , one with itself , inseparably both historical and symbolic , visible and ...
... mysteries elicited from me what seemed to be a self - evident response : beyond the divisions and oppositions of analytic reason stands the truth of the real , one with itself , inseparably both historical and symbolic , visible and ...
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... Mysteries.2 Without a doubt , Chris- tianity has inherited the Greek language Jewish tradition ( scriptural and liturgical ) , since it inaugurated the religious use of " gnosis " as the translation of the Hebrew yd3 — even though some ...
... Mysteries.2 Without a doubt , Chris- tianity has inherited the Greek language Jewish tradition ( scriptural and liturgical ) , since it inaugurated the religious use of " gnosis " as the translation of the Hebrew yd3 — even though some ...
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... mysterious reality , spoken about by the Christians among themselves without need of further explanation , both be ... mystery as much as possible , without be- traying its explicit contents , puts forward no other doctrine . Fénelon ...
... mysterious reality , spoken about by the Christians among themselves without need of further explanation , both be ... mystery as much as possible , without be- traying its explicit contents , puts forward no other doctrine . Fénelon ...
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... Mystery of Iniquity These remarks suffice to show why , a contrario , many of those who " know themselves to be gnostics , " those who claim to have access to a gnosis " beyond good and evil , " are also those who sometimes give ...
... Mystery of Iniquity These remarks suffice to show why , a contrario , many of those who " know themselves to be gnostics , " those who claim to have access to a gnosis " beyond good and evil , " are also those who sometimes give ...
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