{"title":"Jean Borella","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"crisis-of-religious-symbolism-symbolism-and-reality-book-jean-borella-9781621381921","title":"The Crisis of Religious Symbolism \u0026 Symbolism and Reality","description":"Combined here in one volume are two books, The Crisis of Religious Symbolism and Symbolism and Reality. Although published seven years apart, these two works are integral to one another. Symbolism and Reality represents a kind of sabbath rest--its subtitle says reflection--after the mighty works of The Crisis of Religious Symbolism, where the deep structures of three hundred years of Western philosophical and cultural development are brought to the surface, analyzed, and made meaningful in the light of what Jean Borella has termed the metaphysics of the symbol. Together, these two books represent a cleansing and restoration of a Christian vision of the world. Through Jean Borella's witness to the death and resurrection of religious symbolism presented here, we are given entrance to a world renewed in Christ.\u003cp\u003e Borella's writing shines with wayside jewels of intuition, as well as proceeding with a rich vein of theological reasoning.--Malachi Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The French Catholic religious philosopher Jean Borella (b. 1930) taught metaphysics and the history of ancient and medieval philosophy at the University of Nancy I until his retirement in 1995. Besides the present works on sacred symbology, he has also written important texts on charity, analogy, Christian gnosis, mystical theology, and sacred exegesis. His latest work is To the Biblical Sources of Metaphysics (2015).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50173905502481,"sku":"GOR013880666","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51041258963217,"sku":"NIN9781621381921","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51915541152017,"sku":"CIN1621381927VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53021940744465,"sku":"NLS9781621381921","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1621381927.jpg?v=1751024528"},{"product_id":"love-and-truth-book-jean-borella-9781621386360","title":"Love and Truth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove and Truth\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eAmour et V rit \u003c\/em\u003e, 2011), by Jean Borella, is the revised and recast second edition of a book first published in France in 1979 under the title \u003cem\u003eLa charit  profan e\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Desecration of Charity\u003c\/em\u003e). The original idea for this book sprang from the author's bewilderment and dismay at seeing, in the immediate aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, theologians and other Church members call into question or reject some of the fundamental dogmas of the Christian faith, all in the name of a love for humanity  By that time, of course, humanitarian ideology had already made worrisome inroads, having already for two centuries and more extended its unrelenting sway over minds (though sometimes justifiably so). But when it incited both clergy and laity to break with the faith of the Creed itself, this was beyond bearing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Borella shows how at the core of this rage for love then (and still now) animating a Church in the throes of revolution, there festered an illusion-indeed, a perversion-of charity in its inmost essence. But not only this: he likewise shows that to relinquish custody of \u003cem\u003etruth\u003c\/em\u003e to the keeping of a materialist science would be to ignore the limits and errors of this science, and above all to grow calloused to the doctrinal splendors of the loftiest theological and metaphysical science. Hence the necessity, when dealing with the created world and human beings, to present a concept-new in form if not in its depths-that offers faithful Christians fertile ground to put down roots again. A vast undertaking, yes, but one that has led Borella to discern the strayings of modern man, and to his quest to rediscover beneath that perversion the unique Light shining in the darkness which represents the authentic meaning of Christian charity. Christ has said: only knowledge of the Truth will set us free. and free to love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50385625448721,"sku":"CIN1621386368G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51040373506321,"sku":"NIN9781621386360","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53022084792593,"sku":"NLS9781621386360","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1621386368.jpg?v=1751310514"},{"product_id":"truth-of-christian-gnosis-book-jean-borella-9781621389378","title":"The Truth of Christian Gnosis","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than thirty years, those zealous for a certain orthodoxy in Catholicism have denounced Jean Borella as a supporter of that most pernicious of Christian heresies: gnosis. Here he responds to his detractors-not to refute their baseless accusations, but to set before the eyes of readers the intricacies of a very complex topic. To this end, he retrieves and contextualizes findings from the history of religious ideas that attest to the scriptural foundation and rigorous orthodoxy of what St. Paul himself calls gnosis-a gnosis, however, freed from the Gnosticism that usurped its name. He also distinguishes this truly Pauline gnosis from its various modern expressions, which latter are subjected to attentive critical examination. This book, which ultimately is about recapturing the conditions and nature of a truly sacred knowledge, comes at an opportune time, in the afterglow of Pope Benedict XVI's recent reminder that authentic 'gnosis' is a development of faith inspired by Jesus Christ in the soul united with him. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51039363760401,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039367332113,"sku":"NIN9781621389378","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53021648191761,"sku":"NLS9781621389378","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1621389375.jpg?v=1750862859"},{"product_id":"christ-the-original-mystery-book-jean-borella-9781621383420","title":"Christ the Original Mystery","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51039811764497,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039814451473,"sku":"NIN9781621383420","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53021486776593,"sku":"NLS9781621383420","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1621383423.jpg?v=1750720950"},{"product_id":"christ-the-original-mystery-book-jean-borella-9781621383437","title":"Christ the Original Mystery","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51039869108497,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039871926545,"sku":"NIN9781621383437","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53021486809361,"sku":"NLS9781621383437","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1621383431.jpg?v=1750896127"},{"product_id":"love-and-truth-book-jean-borella-9781621386377","title":"Love and Truth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove and Truth\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eAmour et V rit \u003c\/em\u003e, 2011), by Jean Borella, is the revised and recast second edition of a book first published in France in 1979 under the title \u003cem\u003eLa charit  profan e\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Desecration of Charity\u003c\/em\u003e). The original idea for this book sprang from the author's bewilderment and dismay at seeing, in the immediate aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, theologians and other Church members call into question or reject some of the fundamental dogmas of the Christian faith, all in the name of a love for humanity  By that time, of course, humanitarian ideology had already made worrisome inroads, having already for two centuries and more extended its unrelenting sway over minds (though sometimes justifiably so). But when it incited both clergy and laity to break with the faith of the Creed itself, this was beyond bearing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Borella shows how at the core of this rage for love then (and still now) animating a Church in the throes of revolution, there festered an illusion-indeed, a perversion-of charity in its inmost essence. But not only this: he likewise shows that to relinquish custody of \u003cem\u003etruth\u003c\/em\u003e to the keeping of a materialist science would be to ignore the limits and errors of this science, and above all to grow calloused to the doctrinal splendors of the loftiest theological and metaphysical science. Hence the necessity, when dealing with the created world and human beings, to present a concept-new in form if not in its depths-that offers faithful Christians fertile ground to put down roots again. A vast undertaking, yes, but one that has led Borella to discern the strayings of modern man, and to his quest to rediscover beneath that perversion the unique Light shining in the darkness which represents the authentic meaning of Christian charity. Christ has said: only knowledge of the Truth will set us free. and free to love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51039897944337,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039900664081,"sku":"NIN9781621386377","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53022084956433,"sku":"NLS9781621386377","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1621386376.jpg?v=1750960474"},{"product_id":"rediscovering-the-integral-cosmos-book-jean-borella-9781621384083","title":"Rediscovering the Integral Cosmos","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039976915217,"sku":"NIN9781621384083","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53021985538321,"sku":"NLS9781621384083","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/162138408X.jpg?v=1751310510"},{"product_id":"truth-of-christian-gnosis-book-jean-borella-9781621389385","title":"The Truth of Christian Gnosis","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than thirty years, those zealous for a certain orthodoxy in Catholicism have denounced Jean Borella as a supporter of that most pernicious of Christian heresies: gnosis. Here he responds to his detractors-not to refute their baseless accusations, but to set before the eyes of readers the intricacies of a very complex topic. To this end, he retrieves and contextualizes findings from the history of religious ideas that attest to the scriptural foundation and rigorous orthodoxy of what St. Paul himself calls gnosis-a gnosis, however, freed from the Gnosticism that usurped its name. He also distinguishes this truly Pauline gnosis from its various modern expressions, which latter are subjected to attentive critical examination. This book, which ultimately is about recapturing the conditions and nature of a truly sacred knowledge, comes at an opportune time, in the afterglow of Pope Benedict XVI's recent reminder that authentic 'gnosis' is a development of faith inspired by Jesus Christ in the soul united with him. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51040095273233,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51040098058513,"sku":"NIN9781621389385","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53021648224529,"sku":"NLS9781621389385","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1621389383.jpg?v=1751151933"},{"product_id":"crisis-of-religious-symbolism-symbolism-and-reality-book-jean-borella-9781621381914","title":"The Crisis of Religious Symbolism \u0026 Symbolism and Reality","description":"Combined here in one volume are two books, The Crisis of Religious Symbolism and Symbolism and Reality. Although published seven years apart, these two works are integral to one another. Symbolism and Reality represents a kind of sabbath rest--its subtitle says reflection--after the mighty works of The Crisis of Religious Symbolism, where the deep structures of three hundred years of Western philosophical and cultural development are brought to the surface, analyzed, and made meaningful in the light of what Jean Borella has termed the metaphysics of the symbol. Together, these two books represent a cleansing and restoration of a Christian vision of the world. Through Jean Borella's witness to the death and resurrection of religious symbolism presented here, we are given entrance to a world renewed in Christ.\u003cp\u003e Borella's writing shines with wayside jewels of intuition, as well as proceeding with a rich vein of theological reasoning.--Malachi Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The French Catholic religious philosopher Jean Borella (b. 1930) taught metaphysics and the history of ancient and medieval philosophy at the University of Nancy I until his retirement in 1995. Besides the present works on sacred symbology, he has also written important texts on charity, analogy, Christian gnosis, mystical theology, and sacred exegesis. His latest work is To the Biblical Sources of Metaphysics (2015).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51040377143569,"sku":"NIN9781621381914","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53021940678929,"sku":"NLS9781621381914","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1621381919.jpg?v=1751343081"},{"product_id":"rediscovering-the-integral-cosmos-book-jean-borella-9781621384076","title":"Rediscovering the Integral Cosmos","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51040597704977,"sku":"NIN9781621384076","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51157111472401,"sku":"NGR9781621384076","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52765722673425,"sku":"CIN1621384071G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53018708082961,"sku":"NLS9781621384076","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1621384071.jpg?v=1750720951"},{"product_id":"secret-of-the-christian-way-book-jean-borella-9780791448441","title":"The Secret of the Christian Way","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52411821359377,"sku":"GOR014518802","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53213351543057,"sku":"NLS9780791448441","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53513969565969,"sku":"GOR014953066","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780791448441.jpg?v=1758799563"},{"product_id":"secret-of-the-christian-way-book-jean-borella-9780791448434","title":"The Secret of the Christian Way","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53213353115921,"sku":"NLS9780791448434","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780791448434.jpg?v=1772754544"},{"product_id":"broken-ring-book-jean-borella-9798892801591","title":"The Broken Ring","description":"Sinopse: \u003cp\u003eJuca   um menino de pele negra, cabelos encaracolados e olhos castanhos claro,  s vezes verde, tudo dependia da claridade ou at  mesmo de seu humor, n o era como as outras crian as de sua idade que gostava de brincar ou de estar no celular, era filho de trabalhador rural e uma lavadeira de roupa, apesar de sua vida simples, tinha um profundo amor pelos livros e pela leitura.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO menino Juca descobre um novo mundo na leitura, mas obst culos amea am sua viagem liter ria. Viaje pelo seu mundo encantado, desperte para uma nova era. Com determina  o e muita magia, Juca se esfor a para manter viva sua paix o pelos livros, mas...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSer  que ele conseguir  convencer outras pessoas a viajar com ele nesse novo mundo?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO enigma al m do tempo nada mais   que a preocupa  o com a passagem do tempo que permeia a nossa vida. Sabemos que o tempo   uma grande inc gnita que pode confundir at  os mais intelectuais. Dif cil de explor -lo e muitas vezes nos tornamos escravos dele.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO autor ajudar  voc  a refletir e ao mesmo tempo ressignificar alguns dos conhecimentos j  adquiridos e outros que ainda desvendar , viajando pela leitura numa nova perspectiva.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53639676526865,"sku":"NLS9798892801591","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53665702707473,"sku":"NIN9798892801591","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798892801591.jpg?v=1781012482"},{"product_id":"broken-ring-book-jean-borella-9798892801607","title":"The Broken Ring","description":"Sinopse: \u003cp\u003eJuca   um menino de pele negra, cabelos encaracolados e olhos castanhos claro,  s vezes verde, tudo dependia da claridade ou at  mesmo de seu humor, n o era como as outras crian as de sua idade que gostava de brincar ou de estar no celular, era filho de trabalhador rural e uma lavadeira de roupa, apesar de sua vida simples, tinha um profundo amor pelos livros e pela leitura.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO menino Juca descobre um novo mundo na leitura, mas obst culos amea am sua viagem liter ria. Viaje pelo seu mundo encantado, desperte para uma nova era. Com determina  o e muita magia, Juca se esfor a para manter viva sua paix o pelos livros, mas...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSer  que ele conseguir  convencer outras pessoas a viajar com ele nesse novo mundo?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO enigma al m do tempo nada mais   que a preocupa  o com a passagem do tempo que permeia a nossa vida. Sabemos que o tempo   uma grande inc gnita que pode confundir at  os mais intelectuais. Dif cil de explor -lo e muitas vezes nos tornamos escravos dele.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO autor ajudar  voc  a refletir e ao mesmo tempo ressignificar alguns dos conhecimentos j  adquiridos e outros que ainda desvendar , viajando pela leitura numa nova perspectiva.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53639802061073,"sku":"NLS9798892801607","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53665696710929,"sku":"NIN9798892801607","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798892801607.jpg?v=1781013009"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-jean-borella.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}