This Project Demonstrating Excellence (PDE) is an anthology of miracles. The introduction gives an overview of the miracles that were worked by Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammed, the respective leaders of Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam. The (PDE) seeks to answer the following quest…
Although Paul is sometimes depicted as anti-rational, he actually assumes in his letters that human reason, with the aid of the Spirit, can achieve genuine religious knowledge. The specific kind of reason which Paul assumes will be fruitful has a distinctly narrative shape. Paul…
This study draws on the theoretical parallels between Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Pierre Bourdieu. It uses those parallels to demonstrate how placing embodiment at the center of their philosophies attempts to bridge the subject and object dichotomy. It also shows how embodied reas…
In a time of extreme political polarization in America, it is necessary to understand how political attitudes are shaped and how and why political perspectives shift. This study explored political polarization and the search for common ground among American voters in order to ev…
Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) and Leo Strauss (1899–1973) are two immigrants from Europe who have had an outsized influence on American political theory. Though they disagree in many particulars, they come together in what they consider a great error in Western twentieth century int…