The Secret of the Christian Way, livre ebook

A selection of key writings from the French religious philosopher, Jean Borella.

A selection of key writings from the French religious philosopher, Jean Borella.

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.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
The Gnosis with a True Name
The First Stage Contemplating God through His Vestiges in the 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 Stamped upon Our Natural Powers
4. The Constitution of Man According to the New Testament
The Fourth Stage Contemplating God in His Image Reformed by the Gifts of Grace
5. Love and Gnosis in the Crucified Mediator
6. The Human Ternary and the Opening of the Heart in the Old Testament
The Fifth Stage Contemplating the Divine Unity through Its Primary Name which Is Being
7. Love of Self and Love of God
The Sixth Stage Contemplating the Most Blessed Trinity in Its Name which is Good
8. The Trinitarian Functions of the Hypostases
The Seventh Stage The Sabbath of Rest and Ecstasy
9. The Essence and Forms of the "Body of Christ"
10. The "Body of Christ" and the Work of Salvation
11. The Metaphysics of the Eternal Exposition
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
Name and Theme Index
Scriptural Index