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Christian Vij単navda: Yogcra, Nondual Cognition, and Christian Theology
Selected Publications
Eriugena and Indian Thought. In preparation for peer-reviewed special issue of ModernTheology.
Gods Primal, ex nihilo Yes. Syndicate Network symposium response to Brian Robinette, TheDifference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation (Notre Dame: University ofNotre Dame Press, 2023). February 2023 .油油.Co-panelists James Alison, Scott Cowdell, Mark Heim, Chelsea King, Danielle Nussberger,and Cody Sandschafer.
Knowing the Real: Nonduality and Idealism in Dignga, Dharmak朝rti, and Lonergan,Buddhist-Christian Studies 42 (October 2022): 217236.
Eckharts Systematics: Christ the God-Human Ground. Modern Theology 38, no. 4 (October2022): 754776.
Dharmak朝rti and the Theologians: Pratyabhij単 aivism and Christian Theological Reading.Cithara 60, no. 1 (November 2020): 627.
Selected Recent Presentations
Natural Liberation: A Christian Reception of Mahmudr. Catholic Theological Society ofAmerica Comparative Theology Topic Session (Milwaukee: June, 2023).
Buddhist Receptions of Christian Theology in the Work of John Makransky. EuropeanAcademy of Religion annual conference (St. Andrews, Scotland: June, 2023). Convener forpanel Buddhist-Christian Dialogue from the Inside Out. Co-panelists: John Makransky, BrianRobinette, Perry Schmidt-Leukel (University of M端nster).
Points of Contact with Perspectives I: Greco-Buddhism in Antiquity and its Relation toCynicism, Stoicism, and Pyrrhonism. May Workshop presentation for Perspectives on WesternCivilization program (Boston College: May 17 th , 2023).Respondent to Felix Wilfred, Buddhism A Civilizational Cosmopolitanism. Lecture three ofthe annual Duffy Lectures in Global Christianity (Boston College: February 2 nd , 2023).
The Words One Descent in Eriugenas Periphyseon. Notre Dame Conference on MedievalPhilosophy and Theology (Notre Dame: May, 2022).
Self-Awareness and God. International Network in Philosophy of Religion (Cornwall, NY:January, 2022).
Pratyabhij単 aivism and Lonergan: God is an Unrestricted Act of Understanding. Lonerganand Human Consciousness (Notre Dame: December, 2021).
He Was Re-Imaged Before Them: Eckharts Preaching on the Transfiguration. 55thInternational Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI: May, 2021).
Creation out of Nothing and Classical Yogcra. Midwest American Academy of Religion(AAR) (April, 2021).