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Pierre de Bérulle (1575-1629) is one of the foremost personalities
of early modern Catholicism. As the founder of the ""French
school"" of spirituality, he has exercised a profound influence on
the Church from the seventeenth century to the present day. Until
now, however, very little of Bérulle's writings have been
available in English. This volume provides the first complete
English translation of his best-known work, first printed in Paris
in 1623 and titled Discourses on the State and Grandeurs of Jesus,
by the Ineffable Union of the Deity with Humanity, and the
Submission and Servitude that Is Due Him and His Most Holy Mother
in Response to This Wondrous State. Composed in his maturity, this
work expresses Bérulle's theology of the Man-God, whose
self-emptying has enabled us to become ""capable"" of God. In
contrast to other spiritual writers who taught that mystical union
with God follows the extinction of all sensory and conceptual
awareness and all activity of willing, Bérulle's focus is on the
faithful soul's participation in what he calls Jesus' ""states,""
or inner dispositions. The state that Bérulle describes and honors
supremely in this text is Jesus' state of self-emptying in the
mystery of the Incarnation. In the hypostatic union, our humanity
in Christ is lifted up to heaven, and Christ is the first fruit of
humanity-made-divine, the ""firstborn among many brothers.""
Through him we become children of God by adoption, participants in
God's divine being. This is an outstanding translation, conveying
not only the meaning but also the beauty and rhetorical features of
the original. The Discourses will repay reading as a poignant
source of personal devotion, a primary text of the Catholic
Reformation, and a classic of spiritual theology.
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The Technological System (Hardcover)
Jacques Ellul; Foreword by Daniel Cerezuelle; Translated by Lisa Richmond
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