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 x
... reason stands the truth of the real , one with itself , inseparably both historical and symbolic , visible and invisible , physical and se- mantic . This self - evident response rested upon a kind of di- rect and sudden intuition in ...
... reason stands the truth of the real , one with itself , inseparably both historical and symbolic , visible and invisible , physical and se- mantic . This self - evident response rested upon a kind of di- rect and sudden intuition in ...
Page xi
... reason why , contrary to all modern and postmodern thought , the concept of truth applies not only to linguistic propositions , but also to " things . " As one can readily understand , the implications of this " symbolic realism " are ...
... reason why , contrary to all modern and postmodern thought , the concept of truth applies not only to linguistic propositions , but also to " things . " As one can readily understand , the implications of this " symbolic realism " are ...
Page xii
... reason a Christian metaphysics in the fullest sense , and one might well argue that as such it transgresses the cadre of Platonism , even as it likewise trans- gresses the cadre of the Oriental doctrines , and of what some have termed ...
... reason a Christian metaphysics in the fullest sense , and one might well argue that as such it transgresses the cadre of Platonism , even as it likewise trans- gresses the cadre of the Oriental doctrines , and of what some have termed ...
Page xiii
... reason is quite simple : An authentic philosophy of symbolism cannot but be inherently theological , given that it is in Scripture and above all , in the Incarnation ! —that the symbolic attains its highest possibility , and thus its ...
... reason is quite simple : An authentic philosophy of symbolism cannot but be inherently theological , given that it is in Scripture and above all , in the Incarnation ! —that the symbolic attains its highest possibility , and thus its ...
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... reason alone , must have reserved for it the term gnosis ; and this is also why , despite certain well - founded objections , I deem it necessary to pre- serve this term . Thus we see that gnosis is an immense and sacrosanct reality , a ...
... reason alone , must have reserved for it the term gnosis ; and this is also why , despite certain well - founded objections , I deem it necessary to pre- serve this term . Thus we see that gnosis is an immense and sacrosanct reality , a ...
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