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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…

The component essays of my dissertation identify historical mechanisms that have been successful in fostering tolerance and cooperation among members of different social or ethnic groups and derive possible implications for contemporary policy. "Trade, institutions and religious…

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 …

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…

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…