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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... Universe 1 Trinity and Creation The Second Stage Contemplating God in His Vestiges in the Sense World 2 The Inevitable " Failure " of Nicholas of Cusa 3 The Essence of the Symbol The Third Stage Contemplating God through His Image ...
... Universe 1 Trinity and Creation The Second Stage Contemplating God in His Vestiges in the Sense World 2 The Inevitable " Failure " of Nicholas of Cusa 3 The Essence of the Symbol The Third Stage Contemplating God through His Image ...
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... Universe ) underlies his entire thought.52 9950 One may , and even should , reject Hegel as well as Ruyer's " gnosis " ; the first because it is only an immanentist panlogism , a pseudognosis , 53 the second because it is a gnosis ...
... Universe ) underlies his entire thought.52 9950 One may , and even should , reject Hegel as well as Ruyer's " gnosis " ; the first because it is only an immanentist panlogism , a pseudognosis , 53 the second because it is a gnosis ...
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... universe of gnostic literature , not only postulates the analogical reciprocity of Divine Gnosis and human gnosis ; it also basically im- plies their essential identity . Once stripped of all particular knowl- edge and plunged into ...
... universe of gnostic literature , not only postulates the analogical reciprocity of Divine Gnosis and human gnosis ; it also basically im- plies their essential identity . Once stripped of all particular knowl- edge and plunged into ...
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A Contemplative Ascent through the Writings of Jean Borella Jean Borella G. John Champoux. The First Stage Contemplating God through His Vestiges in the Universe Contemplating God through His Vestiges in the Universe Since we VI.
A Contemplative Ascent through the Writings of Jean Borella Jean Borella G. John Champoux. The First Stage Contemplating God through His Vestiges in the Universe Contemplating God through His Vestiges in the Universe Since we VI.
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... Universe Since we must ascend Jacob's ladder before we descend it , let us place our first step in the ascent at the bottom , presenting to ourselves the whole material world as a mirror through which we may pass over to God , the ...
... Universe Since we must ascend Jacob's ladder before we descend it , let us place our first step in the ascent at the bottom , presenting to ourselves the whole material world as a mirror through which we may pass over to God , the ...
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