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 viii
... understanding of the Catholic faith . It has thus prepared and empowered Borella to con- tribute effectively to the accomplishment of one of the major tasks confronting the Catholic Church today , which is to bring her teach- ing ...
... understanding of the Catholic faith . It has thus prepared and empowered Borella to con- tribute effectively to the accomplishment of one of the major tasks confronting the Catholic Church today , which is to bring her teach- ing ...
Page xi
... understand , the implications of this " symbolic realism " are simply immense ; there is hardly a philo- sophical question that is not illumined , and in a way transformed , by this absolutely basic recognition . One further comment ...
... understand , the implications of this " symbolic realism " are simply immense ; there is hardly a philo- sophical question that is not illumined , and in a way transformed , by this absolutely basic recognition . One further comment ...
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... understanding without humility , endeavor without divine grace , reflection as a mirror without divinely inspired wisdom . ( St. Bonaventure , The Soul's Journey into God , Prologue , 4. ) Having set out in search of the secret of ...
... understanding without humility , endeavor without divine grace , reflection as a mirror without divinely inspired wisdom . ( St. Bonaventure , The Soul's Journey into God , Prologue , 4. ) Having set out in search of the secret of ...
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... understand how to distinguish true gnosis from its deviated and diabolic forms . Then , once we have reestablished the accuracy of historical perspectives and deter- mined the specific nature of the " Gnostic subversion , " I can broach ...
... understand how to distinguish true gnosis from its deviated and diabolic forms . Then , once we have reestablished the accuracy of historical perspectives and deter- mined the specific nature of the " Gnostic subversion , " I can broach ...
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... understanding , like that gnosis al- ready denounced by St. Paul . For , I repeat , by no means is this a question of a false morality , the result of a culpable abandon to the deviated instincts of our nature , but of a spiritual and ...
... understanding , like that gnosis al- ready denounced by St. Paul . For , I repeat , by no means is this a question of a false morality , the result of a culpable abandon to the deviated instincts of our nature , but of a spiritual and ...
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