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
... question is clear : Borella is , first and foremost , a Catholic . Yet I would add immediately that even in the restricted class of Catholic philosophers and theologians — I mean those who are truly such , truly " in the tradition ...
... question is clear : Borella is , first and foremost , a Catholic . Yet I would add immediately that even in the restricted class of Catholic philosophers and theologians — I mean those who are truly such , truly " in the tradition ...
Page xi
... question that is not illumined , and in a way transformed , by this absolutely basic recognition . One further comment concerning Borella's philosophical doc- trine needs to be made : his metaphysics , Platonist though it may be , is ...
... question that is not illumined , and in a way transformed , by this absolutely basic recognition . One further comment concerning Borella's philosophical doc- trine needs to be made : his metaphysics , Platonist though it may be , is ...
Page xiv
... question now obtrudes itself : Are not the duali- ties and contradictions of human existence — and of the spiritual way ! —prefigured or somehow rooted in what Borella terms le mys- tere du signe ? It is to be noted that the relation of ...
... question now obtrudes itself : Are not the duali- ties and contradictions of human existence — and of the spiritual way ! —prefigured or somehow rooted in what Borella terms le mys- tere du signe ? It is to be noted that the relation of ...
Page 8
... question is badly posed . In other words , a certain heresiological " attitude " should be re- vised , an attitude that pertains more to our contemporaries than to the ancients . Let us leave aside the historians ( Harnack , Bousset ...
... question is badly posed . In other words , a certain heresiological " attitude " should be re- vised , an attitude that pertains more to our contemporaries than to the ancients . Let us leave aside the historians ( Harnack , Bousset ...
Page 13
... question of ritual purity or impurity : can a Christian eat the idolothytes , that is to say the flesh of animals sacrificed to the pagan gods ? " Now concerning food offered to idols , we know that all of us possess gnosis , " he ...
... question of ritual purity or impurity : can a Christian eat the idolothytes , that is to say the flesh of animals sacrificed to the pagan gods ? " Now concerning food offered to idols , we know that all of us possess gnosis , " he ...
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