- Jean Borella
Jean Borella (born in
Nancy, France , 1930) is aChristian philosopher andtheologian . Borella's works are deeply inspired by Ancient and Christianneoplatonism , but also by theTraditionalist School ofRené Guénon andFrithjof Schuon .Biography
Early years
Borella's father, Italian, made a career in military aviation before his death in 1937 in an air crash, when Jean was seven years old. Borella's mother was French from Lorraine}. Borella had a
Catholic education and traditional public school secondary studies which reinforced in him the idea that he would be a defender of the faith. By age 14, Borella understoodCartesian proof of the existence of God. In 1950, he stayed for a short while in aBenedictine monastery, but left, disappointed.cite web |url=http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/intelligencesets.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 |title=Intelligence Spiritual and Supernatural |accessdate=2007-09-26 |format=html |work=Google translation from French into English]Borella attended university in
Nancy, France . Two of Borella's philosophy professors had significant influence on him,Veorges Vallin andGuy Bugault . Vallin, FrenchOrientalist and philosopher, primarily taught the principles ofVedanta . Bugault taught the philosophy ofKhâgne . While both Vallin and Bugault were readers of Guénon, they did not speak of Guénon in class or in private conversations with Borella. Borella graduated in 1953 with a degree in philosophy, and, in the same year, became familiar with Guénon, and then with Schuon, of whom Borella stated:::"If there were in my life a man whom I actually regarded as a Master, it is well him."In 1954, Borella married a Polish woman.cite web |url=http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/JeanBorella1.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 |title=Jean Borella |accessdate=2007-09-26 |format=html |work=Google translation from French into English]
Later years
By 1957, Borella was a professor of philosophy in
Gérardmer . In 1962, he became professor inNancy, France , where he taught philosophy and French until 1977. In 1982, he was at the .Borella has three daughters, the youngest of which is a
Benedictine nun , and four grandchildren.Notes
Bibliography
* Bérard, Bruno, and Jean Borella. "Jean Borella, la révolution métaphysique: après Galilée, Kant, Marx, Freud, Derrida. Religions et spiritualité". Paris: Harmattan, 2006. ISBN 2296007279
* "Esotérisme guénonien et mystère chrétien", L’Age d’Homme, Lausanne, 1997.
* "Histoire et théorie du symbole", L’Age d’Homme,Lausanne, 2004 (édition revue et corrigée du "Mystère du signe", Maisonneuve et Larose, 1989).
* "La charité profanée", Editions Dominique Martin Morin.
* "La crise du symbolisme religieux", L’Age d’Homme, Lausanne, 1990.
* "Le poème de la Création". Traduction de la Genèse 1-3, Ad Solem, 2002.
* "Le sens du surnaturel", Ad Solem, Genève 1996.
* "Lumières de la théologie mystique", L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne, 2002.
* "Penser l’analogie", Ad Solem, Genève 2000.
* "Symbolisme et réalité", Ad Solem, 1997.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/christianismeroyaut%25E9.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Christianity and gnosis"] - [http://www.geocities.com/Paris/7265/ La Place Royale] , October 1996.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/christianismeroyaut%25E9.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Christianity and royalty"] -"La Place Royale", February 1986.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/connaissance_et_realisation.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "George Vallin, 1921-1983, knowledge and realization"] -"Connaissance des Religions", September-December 1987.
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=aXEAvBGhK98C&dq=%22jean+borella%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=HqP1HzVftO&sig=8NwT4aC9FYE1CIGRia-03i1tGhs#PPP1,M1 "Guénonian Esoterism and Christian Mystery"] -2005.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/sciencesinhumaines.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Inhuman sciences"] -"Catholic Thought", no. 194, 1981.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/logiquenondualisme.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Logic of the non-dualism"] -"Connaissance des Religions", Narcg 1988-March 1989.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/mystere_symbole_scot.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Jean Scot, mystery and symbol of"] -"Connaissance des Religions", March 1987.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/non-etre_seraphin.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Non-being and seraph of the heart"] -"Connaissance des Religions", 1985.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/platon_restauration_intell_occ.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Plato, or restoration of western intellectuality"] -"Traditional Studies", no. 471, 1981.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/guenonmondemod.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Rene Guenon and the Crisis of the Modern World"]
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/100ansguenon.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Rene Guenon at the time of the hundredth anniversary of his birth"] -"Connaissance des Religions", December 1986
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/gnoseguenon.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Rene Guenon, gnosis and gnosticisme"] -le Dossier H (L’Age d’Homme), with permission of René Guénon, 1984.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/autorite_guenon.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Rene Guenon, questions about the authority of"] -"Connaissance des Religions", July-December 2002.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/symboleguenon.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Rene Guenon, symbol according to"] -"Cahier de l’Herne", director J-P Laurant, with permission of René Guénon, 1985.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/politiquestthomas.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "St. Thomas of Aquin, situation of the policy in the thought of"] -"Catholic Thought", June 1982.
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/symbolismeexegese.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Vincent Mora, symbolism and interpretation in connection with a book of"] -"Knowledge of the Religions"
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/delatradition.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Tradition"] -La Place Royale, 1983.
* Borella, Jean, and G. John Champoux. "The Secret of the Christian Way A Contemplative Ascent Through the Writings of Jean Borella". SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. ISBN 0791448436Further reading
* Fabbri, Renaud. [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:CQvwh0crgaoJ:www.religioperennis.org/documents/Editorial/Issue5/editorialIII1.pdf+%22jean+borella%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us Editorial: Remarks on Jean Borella’s "The Problematic of the Unity of Religions"] Vincit Omnia Veritas. III,1
* Meramo, Basilio, and Bernard Tissier de Mallerais. "Les hérésies de la gnose du professeur Jean Borella". Sion: Editions Les Amis de saint François de Sales, 1996. ISBN 3905519135External links
* [http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://jean.borella.neuf.fr/intelligencesets.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522jean%2Bborella%2522%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GFRC_enUS207US208 "Intelligence Spiritual and Supernatural"] -Borella interview
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