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 ix
... whole . One has the impression that the entire gamut of discourse , filling so many volumes and covering an immense range of topics , is held together as if by a single strand of thought , a single vision of truth . Now , I believe this ...
... whole . One has the impression that the entire gamut of discourse , filling so many volumes and covering an immense range of topics , is held together as if by a single strand of thought , a single vision of truth . Now , I believe this ...
Page x
... whole must somehow be grasped directly " above " the parts . Or to put it another way : An authentic theory of symbolism cannot but be pro- foundly symbolic itself . Borella , most assuredly , is no " analytic " philosopher . No true ...
... whole must somehow be grasped directly " above " the parts . Or to put it another way : An authentic theory of symbolism cannot but be pro- foundly symbolic itself . Borella , most assuredly , is no " analytic " philosopher . No true ...
Page xi
... whole needs to be grasped " above " the parts , and in a way prior to the parts . But this can only be effected through " a direct and sudden intuition , " that is to say , by the veritable intellect , that " single eye " to which ...
... whole needs to be grasped " above " the parts , and in a way prior to the parts . But this can only be effected through " a direct and sudden intuition , " that is to say , by the veritable intellect , that " single eye " to which ...
Page 20
... whole , those intel- ligible forms prerequisite to the reception of the Divine Word are , in themselves , a metaphysical doctrine . A mode of intellective re- ceptivity suitable for revelation , this doctrine , in so far as taught and ...
... whole , those intel- ligible forms prerequisite to the reception of the Divine Word are , in themselves , a metaphysical doctrine . A mode of intellective re- ceptivity suitable for revelation , this doctrine , in so far as taught and ...
Page 23
... whole of gnosis . It is , as I have explained , ordered to the reception of Revelation ; it is , as I have said , a metaphysics of welcome . This means that it is only completed by the reception of the Word Incarnate : the gnostic's ...
... whole of gnosis . It is , as I have explained , ordered to the reception of Revelation ; it is , as I have said , a metaphysics of welcome . This means that it is only completed by the reception of the Word Incarnate : the gnostic's ...
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