Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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."
Synopsis
Jean Borella is a retired Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Nancy II. He is the author of many books, including most recently, Le sens du surnaturel, Symbolisme et r alit , and sot risme gu nonien et myst re chr tien. G. John Champoux has also translated Jean Borella's The Sense of the Supernatural.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205) and indexes.
Table of 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.