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
... seems that Borella is currently being " discovered " both in England and in the United States . For some years , to be sure , the French author had been known in these domains to a comparative few as one of the major intellectual ...
... seems that Borella is currently being " discovered " both in England and in the United States . For some years , to be sure , the French author had been known in these domains to a comparative few as one of the major intellectual ...
Page ix
... seems to me that Borella is fulfilling a major task of our time . His is a voice that rises above the bias , schisms , and po- larizations that presently afflict " the one holy catholic and apostolic Church , " a voice that recalls to ...
... seems to me that Borella is fulfilling a major task of our time . His is a voice that rises above the bias , schisms , and po- larizations that presently afflict " the one holy catholic and apostolic Church , " a voice that recalls to ...
Page xii
... seems to appeal directly to 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 ...
... seems to appeal directly to 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 ...
Page 5
... seem to undermine my general thesis : namely , the legitimate existence of a way of gno- sis ( in the proper sense of the term ) within the bosom of Christian- ity . To avoid misunderstandings , however , we need to take them into ...
... seem to undermine my general thesis : namely , the legitimate existence of a way of gno- sis ( in the proper sense of the term ) within the bosom of Christian- ity . To avoid misunderstandings , however , we need to take them into ...
Page 7
... seem to the eyes of modern historians , the heresiological categories of early church writers are not in reality uniformly devoid of precision . Several among the greatest of these authors sometimes distinguish between self- and hetero ...
... seem to the eyes of modern historians , the heresiological categories of early church writers are not in reality uniformly devoid of precision . Several among the greatest of these authors sometimes distinguish between self- and hetero ...
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