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The secret of the Christian way : a contemplative ascent through the writings of Jean Borella / edited and translated by G. John Champoux.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borella, Jean, author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions
- SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions The secret of the Christian way
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 2001
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Spiritual life--Catholic Church.
- Spiritual life.
- Borella, Jean--Religion.
- Borella, Jean.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 215 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2001]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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 writing, 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."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- The gnosis with a true name
- Trinity and creation
- The inevitable "failure" of Nicholas of Cusa
- The essence of the symbol
- The constitution of man according to the New Testament
- Love and gnosis in the crucified mediator
- The human ternary and the opening of the heart in the Old Testament
- Love of self and love of God
- The Trinitarian functions of the Hypostases
- The essence and forms of the "Body of Christ"
- The "Body of Christ" and the work of salvation
- The metaphysics of the eternal exposition.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-7914-9118-8
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