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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... sacred facts related to us by the Old and New Testaments . My entire philosophic thrust has sprung from the conviction which has imposed on me the duty to speculatively accept this formidable challenge . ” As Borella goes on to relate ...
... sacred facts related to us by the Old and New Testaments . My entire philosophic thrust has sprung from the conviction which has imposed on me the duty to speculatively accept this formidable challenge . ” As Borella goes on to relate ...
Page xii
... sacred symbols as immediate " presentifications " of the Real . It thus regards the " offending " for- mulations of traditional theology in a manner exactly opposite to the reductionism of the " demythologizers " : it perceives in the ...
... sacred symbols as immediate " presentifications " of the Real . It thus regards the " offending " for- mulations of traditional theology in a manner exactly opposite to the reductionism of the " demythologizers " : it perceives in the ...
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... sacred symbols is itself dual : on the one hand , as I have said , that philosophy appeals directly to sacred symbols for its highest in- sights , while on the other hand , it serves as a hermeneutic , a key that unlocks the symbol ...
... sacred symbols is itself dual : on the one hand , as I have said , that philosophy appeals directly to sacred symbols for its highest in- sights , while on the other hand , it serves as a hermeneutic , a key that unlocks the symbol ...
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... sacred stigmata of the Passion . While there , Bonaventure was inspired to interpret this vision according to an ec- static ascent to the crucified Christ in six stages ( Seraphim are said to have six wings ) . The Itinerarium was the ...
... sacred stigmata of the Passion . While there , Bonaventure was inspired to interpret this vision according to an ec- static ascent to the crucified Christ in six stages ( Seraphim are said to have six wings ) . The Itinerarium was the ...
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... sacred and ritual forms is in their visibility : this visibility is given to everyone and rivets the gaze of saving faith , thus diverting it away from being scattered by multiplicity . Of itself , it determines a pure and an impure ...
... sacred and ritual forms is in their visibility : this visibility is given to everyone and rivets the gaze of saving faith , thus diverting it away from being scattered by multiplicity . Of itself , it determines a pure and an impure ...
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