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
... speaking world . To date only one of his books has been published in English ( The Sense of the Supernatural , Edinburgh : T & T Clark , 1998 ) . It seems that Borella is currently being " discovered " both in England and in the United ...
... speaking world . To date only one of his books has been published in English ( The Sense of the Supernatural , Edinburgh : T & T Clark , 1998 ) . It seems that Borella is currently being " discovered " both in England and in the United ...
Page xi
... speak " : they are speech . What the Logos , the Divine Word , produces is again , finally , a " word . " It is this fact , ultimately , which renders beings intelligible to the human intellect , and therefore knowable to man . It is ...
... speak " : they are speech . What the Logos , the Divine Word , produces is again , finally , a " word . " It is this fact , ultimately , which renders beings intelligible to the human intellect , and therefore knowable to man . It is ...
Page xii
... speaking , transgresses the cadre of philosophy itself , so long as this discipline is conceived as purely rational and discursive . In its highest moments , Borella's teaching seems to appeal directly to sacred symbols as immediate ...
... speaking , transgresses the cadre of philosophy itself , so long as this discipline is conceived as purely rational and discursive . In its highest moments , Borella's teaching seems to appeal directly to sacred symbols as immediate ...
Page 10
... speak of a " falsely named " knowledge and not just of a true or false knowledge ? His formula can mean only one thing : true knowledge is also the knowl- edge par excellence , that unique knowledge which , for this reason alone , must ...
... speak of a " falsely named " knowledge and not just of a true or false knowledge ? His formula can mean only one thing : true knowledge is also the knowl- edge par excellence , that unique knowledge which , for this reason alone , must ...
Page 16
... speak only of the god onochoites . " 36 9937 To grasp the true significance of the onocephalic god , we need to recall first that this figure is of Egyptian origin : in fact it is one of the animal forms assumed by the god Set ...
... speak only of the god onochoites . " 36 9937 To grasp the true significance of the onocephalic god , we need to recall first that this figure is of Egyptian origin : in fact it is one of the animal forms assumed by the god Set ...
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