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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... original , though doubtless traditional in spirit . These revelations have about them a freshness that I find precious , and arouse in us a deep response — a kind of blissful excitation , I am tempted to say— that I would count among ...
... original , though doubtless traditional in spirit . These revelations have about them a freshness that I find precious , and arouse in us a deep response — a kind of blissful excitation , I am tempted to say— that I would count among ...
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... original sin has erased from our 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 ...
... original sin has erased from our 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 ...
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... original and seems to be that which is smallest in man , like " Hop - o ' - my - thumb , " that is to say like the intellect which , through the dark forest of the world , goes " before the Lord , " bringing a sav- ing knowledge , the ...
... original and seems to be that which is smallest in man , like " Hop - o ' - my - thumb , " that is to say like the intellect which , through the dark forest of the world , goes " before the Lord , " bringing a sav- ing knowledge , the ...
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