This unique book highlights the contributions made by Muslim scholars to economic thought throughout history, a topic that has received relatively little attention in mainstream economics. Abdul Azim Islahi discusses various ways in which Muslim ideas reached the European West, …
Substance and illusion in the Christian fathers
The first argument of my work exposes what Nietzsche means by the term “dogma” when he claims that much of the Western tradition has engaged in the “dogmatic error.” To expose Nietzsche’s use of the concept, I look to Section V, “How the ‘Real World’ at Last Became a Myth,” from…
This alchemical hermeneutic study examines the problem of the myth of separation between spirit and matter that lies at the wounded heart of the Western psyche. The myth of separation is conceptualized as a traumatic, intergenerational attachment wound that creates the perceptio…
It is a theological commonplace that 'classical' christology is incompetent to comprehend the authentic humanity of Christ. Alert to the charge but sympathetic to a 'neo-classical' approach, this paper addresses one aspect of the problem, namely, the properly dogmatic definition…
This dissertation addresses the reciprocal relations between rational speculation and devotional piety in the life and thought of Rabbi Moses Cordoeiro (= Cordovero - RaMaK, Safed, 1522-1570), arguably the most important mystical thinker in Jewish history. By featuring numerous …