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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... Once discovered , fixing the gaze of my spirit upon the holy Fathers and Doctors , upon the Clements , the Dionysii , the Gregories , the Augustines and the Thomases , I said : I too am of their race . Surely not by sanctity or genius ...
... Once discovered , fixing the gaze of my spirit upon the holy Fathers and Doctors , upon the Clements , the Dionysii , the Gregories , the Augustines and the Thomases , I said : I too am of their race . Surely not by sanctity or genius ...
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... deviated and diabolic forms . Then , once we have reestablished the accuracy of historical perspectives and deter- mined the specific nature of the " Gnostic subversion , " I can broach the last part of my study : first , сл 5 V.
... deviated and diabolic forms . Then , once we have reestablished the accuracy of historical perspectives and deter- mined the specific nature of the " Gnostic subversion , " I can broach the last part of my study : first , сл 5 V.
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... once broad and ill - defined , is completely unknown in the first Christian period . " 16 To which I will add , for the sake of the most implacable foes of gnosis — there is no longer any written trace , in the official texts of the ...
... once broad and ill - defined , is completely unknown in the first Christian period . " 16 To which I will add , for the sake of the most implacable foes of gnosis — there is no longer any written trace , in the official texts of the ...
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... " he declares ( 1 Cor . 8 : 1 ) ; in other words : we have all received this spiritual doctrine that enables us to escape the consequences engendered by a transgression of taboos , because , once The Gnosis with a True Name 13.
... " he declares ( 1 Cor . 8 : 1 ) ; in other words : we have all received this spiritual doctrine that enables us to escape the consequences engendered by a transgression of taboos , because , once The Gnosis with a True Name 13.
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... once estab- lished on the spiritual ( pneumatic ) plane , we are raised above the psycho - corporeal plane where these consequences unfold . Thus , as he had declared previously : " all things are lawful for me " ( 1 Cor . 6:12 ) for ...
... once estab- lished on the spiritual ( pneumatic ) plane , we are raised above the psycho - corporeal plane where these consequences unfold . Thus , as he had declared previously : " all things are lawful for me " ( 1 Cor . 6:12 ) for ...
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