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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... physical and se- mantic . This self - evident response rested upon a kind of di- rect and sudden intuition in which was revealed , obscurely but without any possible doubt , the ontologically spiritual nature of the matter of bodies ...
... physical and se- mantic . This self - evident response rested upon a kind of di- rect and sudden intuition in which was revealed , obscurely but without any possible doubt , the ontologically spiritual nature of the matter of bodies ...
Page xi
... physical and semantic . " Not only , thus , do they " speak " : they are speech . What the Logos , the Divine Word , produces is again , finally , a " word . " It is this fact , ultimately , which renders beings intelligible to the ...
... physical and semantic . " Not only , thus , do they " speak " : they are speech . What the Logos , the Divine Word , produces is again , finally , a " word . " It is this fact , ultimately , which renders beings intelligible to the ...
Page xii
... physical point of view , the truth proclaimed by St. Paul : " And He is before all things , and by Him all things consist " ( Col. 1:17 ) . How- ever , there is more to be said : for it appears that Borella's doctrine is not simply ...
... physical point of view , the truth proclaimed by St. Paul : " And He is before all things , and by Him all things consist " ( Col. 1:17 ) . How- ever , there is more to be said : for it appears that Borella's doctrine is not simply ...
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... physical " uses of the term are already to be found in Plato who , in his Politics ( 258e ) , " opposes , within the domain of scientific knowledge ( episteme ) , what stems from the ' practical ' ( he prak- tike ) , that is to say from ...
... physical " uses of the term are already to be found in Plato who , in his Politics ( 258e ) , " opposes , within the domain of scientific knowledge ( episteme ) , what stems from the ' practical ' ( he prak- tike ) , that is to say from ...
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... physical fault , by which one intends to prove to oneself and to others that one is truly free of all duality and every distinction , even of that distinction between sacrilege and the sacred . Now we see that we are also at the source ...
... physical fault , by which one intends to prove to oneself and to others that one is truly free of all duality and every distinction , even of that distinction between sacrilege and the sacred . Now we see that we are also at the source ...
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