Selected Publications
- With Roberto J. de la Noval. “Free Willing in God: A Metaphor, Not an Analogy, for DivineCreating.� Religious Studies (September 2026): 1–23.
- “Theologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhijñ� Śaivism.� Modern Theology 42, no. 4 (October 2026): 927–952.
- “Self-Awareness (rang rig) and Nondual Presence: Tibetan Mah�mudr� and a Christian-AdjacentCorrelation.� Buddhist-Christian Studies 45 (2025).
- "God’s Primal, ex nihilo ‘Yes.’� Syndicate Network symposium on Brian Robinette, The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation (University of Notre Dame Press, 2023). February 2023.
- “Knowing the Real: Nonduality and Idealism in Dign�ga, Dharmakīrti, and Lonergan.� Buddhist-Christian Studies 42 (October 2022): 217–236.
- “Eckhart’s Systematics: Christ the God-Human Ground.� Modern Theology 38, no. 4 (October 2022): 754–776.
- “Dharmakīrti and the Theologians: Pratyabhijñ� Śaivism and Christian Theological Reading.� Cithara 60, no. 1 (November 2020): 6–27.
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Selected Recent Presentations
- “Theological Interpretations of Pure Awareness and Predictive Processing in Buddhist and Christian Traditions.â€� European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies biannual conference (Hamburg: June 2026).Ìý
- “Pure Awareness Experiences (PAE), Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE), and the Epistemology of Mystical States.â€� 53rd Lonergan Workshop. (Boston: June, 2026).Ìý
- “Slow Learning for Human Knowers: Designing for Practices, Not Outputs.â€� Excellence in Teaching Day (Boston College: May 4, 2026). /content/bcweb/academics/sites/center-for-teaching-excellence/programs-events/campus-wideprograms/Excellence-In-Teaching-Day.htmlÌý
- “Rethinking Teaching in the Age of GenAI.â€� Boston College Theology Department Retreat (Dover, MA: December 2025).Ìý
- “How I’ve Redesigned My Core Course in Light of AI.â€� Boston College Theology Department, Faculty Lunch Conversation (November 12, 2025).Ìý
- Panel proponent for “Affect in Contemplative Practice: Tibetan and Christian Parallels,â€� Comparative Theology Unit of the American Academy of Religion annual meeting (Boston: November 2025).Ìý
- “Affect and Insight in Dzogchen Preliminary Practices.â€� For the above panel at American Academy of Religion annual meeting (Boston: November 2025).Ìý
- Panel proponent and convener for “Tibetan Buddhism in Comparison,â€� European Academy of Religion Annual Conference (Vienna: July 8–12, 2025).Ìý
- “Dzogchen and Theisms.â€� For the above panel at the European Academy of Religion Annual Conference (Vienna: July 8–12, 2025).Ìý
- “Daniel Helminiak’s ‘Nonreflecting Consciousness’ and Buddhist Contributions to the Critical Realist Study of Consciousness.â€� 52nd Lonergan Workshop (Boston College: June 15–18, 2025).Ìý
- “A Tibetan View of Self-Awareness (rang rig) in Christian Contemplative Reception.â€� American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (San Diego: November 24, 2024).Ìý
- “A Buddhist-Christian Understanding of the Mind-Made Body (manomayakÄ�ya).â€� European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies (Archabbey of St. Ottilien, Upper Bavaria: June 27–July 1, 2024).Ìý
- “Creating Is Not Free Choosing: Dismantling an Analogy.â€� Pre-circulated paper for Mount Angel Fellowship of Scholars (Mount Angel Seminary, Saint Benedict, Oregon: May 31, 2024).Ìý
- “Buddhist Practices for Widening the ‘I:’ Taking Other Beings as One’s Body.â€� Lunchtime lecture for the Boisi Center (Boston College: April 17, 2024).Ìý
- “Natural Liberation: A Christian Reception of MahÄ�mudrÄ�.â€� Catholic Theological Society of America – Comparative Theology Topic Session (Milwaukee: June 2023).Ìý
- “Buddhist Receptions of Christian Theology in the Work of John Makransky.â€� European Academy of Religion annual conference (St. Andrew’s, Scotland: June 2023).Ìý
- Convener for panel “Buddhist-Christian Dialogue from the Inside Out.â€� European Academy of Religion (St. Andrew’s: June 2023).ÌýCo-panelists: John Makransky, Brian Robinette, Perry Schmidt-Leukel (University of Münster).Ìý
- “Greco-Buddhism in Antiquity and its Relation to Cynicism, Stoicism, and Pyrrhonism.â€� May Workshop for Perspectives on Western Civilization program (Boston College: May 17, 2023).Ìý
- Respondent to Felix Wilfred, “Buddhism: A Civilizational Cosmopolitanism.â€� Lecture three of the annual Duffy Lectures in Global Christianity (Boston College: February 2nd, 2023).Ìý
- “The Word’s One Descent in Eriugena’s Periphyseon.â€� Notre Dame Conference on Medieval Philosophy and Theology (Notre Dame: May, 2022).Ìý
- “Self-Awareness and God.â€� International Network in Philosophy of Religion (Cornwall, NY: January, 2022).Ìý
- “PratyabhijñÄ� Åšaivism and Lonergan: God is an Unrestricted Act of Understanding.â€� Lonergan and Human Consciousness (Notre Dame: December, 2021).Ìý
- “He Was Re-Imaged Before Them:’ Eckhart’s Preaching on the Transfiguration.â€� 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI: May, 2021).Ìý
- “Creation out of Nothing and Classical Yog�c�ra.� Midwest American Academy of Religion (April, 2021).