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Jean Borella (born in Nancy, France, 1930) is a Christian philosopher and theologian. He was a former student of the French Orientalist and philosopher Georges Vallin and a professor of philosophy in Nancy, France. Borella's works are deeply inspired by Ancient and Christian neoplatonism, but also by the Traditionalist School of René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon.

Biography

Borella's father, Italian, made a career in military aviation before dying in 1937 in an air crash. Borella's mother was French from Lorraine}.

Borella had a Catholic education and traditional secondary studies before attending the University of Nancy, graduating in 1953 with a degree in philosophy.

Bibliography

  • La charité profanée, Editions Dominique Martin Morin.
  • Le sens du surnaturel, Ad Solem, Genève 1996.
  • Histoire et théorie du symbole, L’Age d’Homme,Lausanne, 2004 (édition revue et corrigée du "Mystère du signe", Maisonneuve et Larose, 1989).
  • La crise du symbolisme religieux, L’Age d’Homme, Lausanne, 1990.
  • Esotérisme guénonien et mystère chrétien, L’Age d’Homme, Lausanne, 1997.
  • Symbolisme et réalité, Ad Solem, 1997.
  • Penser l’analogie, Ad Solem, Genève 2000.
  • The secret of the Christian Way. A contemplative Ascent through the Writings of Jean Borella, edited and translated by John Champoux with a Foreword by Wolfgang Smith, State University of New York Press, Albany, 2001.
  • Le poème de la Création. Traduction de la Genèse 1-3, Ad Solem, 2002.
  • "Lumières de la théologie mystique", L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne, 2002.
  • Guénonian Esoterism and Christian Mystery (cloth, 2005)

Further reading

  • Bérard, Bruno, and Jean Borella. Jean Borella, la révolution métaphysique: après Galilée, Kant, Marx, Freud, Derrida. Religions et spiritualité. Paris: Harmattan, 2006. ISBN 2296007279
  • 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 3905519135
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