Selected Publications
- With Roberto J. de la Noval. 淔ree Willing in God: A Metaphor, Not an Analogy, for DivineCreating.� Religious Studies (September 2026): 1�23.
- 淭heologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhij帽膩 艢aivism.� Modern Theology 42, no. 4 (October 2026): 927�952.
- 淪elf-Awareness (rang rig) and Nondual Presence: Tibetan Mah膩mudr膩 and a Christian-AdjacentCorrelation.� Buddhist-Christian Studies 45 (2025).
- "God Primal, ex nihilo 榊es.櫇 Syndicate Network symposium on Brian Robinette, The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation (University of Notre Dame Press, 2023). February 2023.
- 淜nowing the Real: Nonduality and Idealism in Dign膩ga, Dharmak墨rti, and Lonergan.� Buddhist-Christian Studies 42 (October 2022): 217�236.
- 淓ckhart Systematics: Christ the God-Human Ground.� Modern Theology 38, no. 4 (October 2022): 754�776.
- 淒harmak墨rti and the Theologians: Pratyabhij帽膩 艢aivism and Christian Theological Reading.� Cithara 60, no. 1 (November 2020): 6�27.
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Selected Recent Presentations
- 淭heological Interpretations of Pure Awareness and Predictive Processing in Buddhist and Christian Traditions.� European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies biannual conference (Hamburg: June 2026).听
- 淧ure Awareness Experiences (PAE), Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE), and the Epistemology of Mystical States.� 53rd Lonergan Workshop. (Boston: June, 2026).听
- 淪low Learning for Human Knowers: Designing for Practices, Not Outputs.� 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.html听
- 淩ethinking Teaching in the Age of GenAI.� Boston College Theology Department Retreat (Dover, MA: December 2025).听
- 淗ow I檝e Redesigned My Core Course in Light of AI.� Boston College Theology Department, Faculty Lunch Conversation (November 12, 2025).听
- Panel proponent for 淎ffect in Contemplative Practice: Tibetan and Christian Parallels,� Comparative Theology Unit of the American Academy of Religion annual meeting (Boston: November 2025).听
- 淎ffect and Insight in Dzogchen Preliminary Practices.� For the above panel at American Academy of Religion annual meeting (Boston: November 2025).听
- Panel proponent and convener for 淭ibetan Buddhism in Comparison,� European Academy of Religion Annual Conference (Vienna: July 8�12, 2025).听
- 淒zogchen and Theisms.� For the above panel at the European Academy of Religion Annual Conference (Vienna: July 8�12, 2025).听
- 淒aniel Helminiak 楴onreflecting Consciousness� and Buddhist Contributions to the Critical Realist Study of Consciousness.� 52nd Lonergan Workshop (Boston College: June 15�18, 2025).听
- 淎 Tibetan View of Self-Awareness (rang rig) in Christian Contemplative Reception.� American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (San Diego: November 24, 2024).听
- 淎 Buddhist-Christian Understanding of the Mind-Made Body (manomayak膩ya).� European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies (Archabbey of St. Ottilien, Upper Bavaria: June 27揓uly 1, 2024).听
- 淐reating Is Not Free Choosing: Dismantling an Analogy.� Pre-circulated paper for Mount Angel Fellowship of Scholars (Mount Angel Seminary, Saint Benedict, Oregon: May 31, 2024).听
- 淏uddhist Practices for Widening the 業:� Taking Other Beings as One Body.� Lunchtime lecture for the Boisi Center (Boston College: April 17, 2024).听
- 淣atural Liberation: A Christian Reception of Mah膩mudr膩.� Catholic Theological Society of America � Comparative Theology Topic Session (Milwaukee: June 2023).听
- 淏uddhist Receptions of Christian Theology in the Work of John Makransky.� European Academy of Religion annual conference (St. Andrew, Scotland: June 2023).听
- Convener for panel 淏uddhist-Christian Dialogue from the Inside Out.� European Academy of Religion (St. Andrew: June 2023).听Co-panelists: John Makransky, Brian Robinette, Perry Schmidt-Leukel (University of M眉nster).听
- 淕reco-Buddhism in Antiquity and its Relation to Cynicism, Stoicism, and Pyrrhonism.� May Workshop for Perspectives on Western Civilization program (Boston College: May 17, 2023).听
- Respondent to Felix Wilfred, 淏uddhism: A Civilizational Cosmopolitanism.� Lecture three of the annual Duffy Lectures in Global Christianity (Boston College: February 2nd, 2023).听
- 淭he Word One Descent in Eriugena Periphyseon.� Notre Dame Conference on Medieval Philosophy and Theology (Notre Dame: May, 2022).听
- 淪elf-Awareness and God.� International Network in Philosophy of Religion (Cornwall, NY: January, 2022).听
- 淧ratyabhij帽膩 艢aivism and Lonergan: God is an Unrestricted Act of Understanding.� Lonergan and Human Consciousness (Notre Dame: December, 2021).听
- 淗e Was Re-Imaged Before Them:� Eckhart Preaching on the Transfiguration.� 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI: May, 2021).听
- 淐reation out of Nothing and Classical Yog膩c膩ra.� Midwest American Academy of Religion (April, 2021).