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
... reality — and so it consti- tutes indeed an " ascent . " The course represents or replicates , in fact , the spiritual journey itself . The mystery , moreover , which confronts us at every stage , is also , and above all , a mystery of ...
... reality — and so it consti- tutes indeed an " ascent . " The course represents or replicates , in fact , the spiritual journey itself . The mystery , moreover , which confronts us at every stage , is also , and above all , a mystery of ...
Page x
... reality of their corporeity . We may take it that what Borella circumscribes in this remarkable statement is indeed the decisive intuition — bordering upon the mystical — that has given rise , first to his doctoral dissertation , and ...
... reality of their corporeity . We may take it that what Borella circumscribes in this remarkable statement is indeed the decisive intuition — bordering upon the mystical — that has given rise , first to his doctoral dissertation , and ...
Page xii
... reality . What in Scripture strikes the " critical " exegete as categorically unbelievable is precisely what can serve as a bridge that leads beyond the phenomenal realm , beyond what Hindus might term the world of maya . But needless ...
... reality . What in Scripture strikes the " critical " exegete as categorically unbelievable is precisely what can serve as a bridge that leads beyond the phenomenal realm , beyond what Hindus might term the world of maya . But needless ...
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... reality played only an episodic role . . . . Likewise we need to recognize . . . that the writ- ing is discrete about Gnosis as codified by the major sects . Is the title " Gnostic " purely extrinsic then ? Do the heresiolo- gists ...
... reality played only an episodic role . . . . Likewise we need to recognize . . . that the writ- ing is discrete about Gnosis as codified by the major sects . Is the title " Gnostic " purely extrinsic then ? Do the heresiolo- gists ...
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... reality , a profound and mysterious reality , spoken about by the Christians among themselves without need of further explanation , both be- cause each one concurs in seeing here a designation for the inward and intimate " knowledge ...
... reality , a profound and mysterious reality , spoken about by the Christians among themselves without need of further explanation , both be- cause each one concurs in seeing here a designation for the inward and intimate " knowledge ...
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