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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412526101760
• “Theologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism.” Modern Theology 42, no. 4 (October 2026): 927–952. https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.70077
• “Self-Awareness (rang rig) and Nondual Presence: Tibetan Mahāmudrā and a Christian-AdjacentCorrelation.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 45 (2025). https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2026.a979816
• "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. https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/the-difference-nothing makes/
• “Knowing the Real: Nonduality and Idealism in Dignāga, Dharmakīrti, and Lonergan.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 42 (October 2022): 217–236. https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2022.0012
• “Eckhart’s Systematics: Christ the God-Human Ground.” Modern Theology 38, no. 4 (October 2022): 754–776. https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12797
• “Dharmakīrti and the Theologians: Pratyabhijñā Śaivism and Christian Theological Reading.” Cithara 60, no. 1 (November 2020): 6–27. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2487475837/EFC7218D76C74779PQ/4?accountid=9673

Selected Recent Presentations

• “Theological Interpretations of Pure Awareness and Predictive Processing in Buddhist and Christian Traditions.” European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies biannual conference (Hamburg: June 2026). 
• “Pure Awareness Experiences (PAE), Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE), and the Epistemology of Mystical States.” 53rd Lonergan Workshop. (Boston: June, 2026). 
• “Slow Learning for Human Knowers: Designing for Practices, Not Outputs.” Excellence in Teaching Day (Boston College: May 4, 2026). https://www.bc.edu/content/bcweb/academics/sites/center-for-teaching-excellence/programs-events/campus-wideprograms/Excellence-In-Teaching-Day.html 
• “Rethinking Teaching in the Age of GenAI.” Boston College Theology Department Retreat (Dover, MA: December 2025). 
• “How I’ve Redesigned My Core Course in Light of AI.” Boston College Theology Department, Faculty Lunch Conversation (November 12, 2025). 
• Panel proponent for “Affect in Contemplative Practice: Tibetan and Christian Parallels,” Comparative Theology Unit of the American Academy of Religion annual meeting (Boston: November 2025). 
• “Affect and Insight in Dzogchen Preliminary Practices.” For the above panel at American Academy of Religion annual meeting (Boston: November 2025). 
• Panel proponent and convener for “Tibetan Buddhism in Comparison,” European Academy of Religion Annual Conference (Vienna: July 8–12, 2025). 
• “Dzogchen and Theisms.” For the above panel at the European Academy of Religion Annual Conference (Vienna: July 8–12, 2025). 
• “Daniel Helminiak’s ‘Nonreflecting Consciousness’ and Buddhist Contributions to the Critical Realist Study of Consciousness.” 52nd Lonergan Workshop (Boston College: June 15–18, 2025). 
• “A Tibetan View of Self-Awareness (rang rig) in Christian Contemplative Reception.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (San Diego: November 24, 2024). 
• “A Buddhist-Christian Understanding of the Mind-Made Body (manomayakāya).” European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies (Archabbey of St. Ottilien, Upper Bavaria: June 27–July 1, 2024). 
• “Creating 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). 
• “Buddhist Practices for Widening the ‘I:’ Taking Other Beings as One’s Body.” Lunchtime lecture for the Boisi Center (Boston College: April 17, 2024). 
• “Natural Liberation: A Christian Reception of Mahāmudrā.” Catholic Theological Society of America – Comparative Theology Topic Session (Milwaukee: June 2023). 
• “Buddhist Receptions of Christian Theology in the Work of John Makransky.” European Academy of Religion annual conference (St. Andrew’s, Scotland: June 2023). 
• Convener for panel “Buddhist-Christian Dialogue from the Inside Out.” European Academy of Religion (St. Andrew’s: June 2023). Co-panelists: John Makransky, Brian Robinette, Perry Schmidt-Leukel (University of Münster). 
• “Greco-Buddhism in Antiquity and its Relation to Cynicism, Stoicism, and Pyrrhonism.” May Workshop for Perspectives on Western Civilization program (Boston College: May 17, 2023). 
• Respondent to Felix Wilfred, “Buddhism: A Civilizational Cosmopolitanism.” Lecture three of the annual Duffy Lectures in Global Christianity (Boston College: February 2nd, 2023). 
• “The Word’s One Descent in Eriugena’s Periphyseon.” Notre Dame Conference on Medieval Philosophy and Theology (Notre Dame: May, 2022). 
• “Self-Awareness and God.” International Network in Philosophy of Religion (Cornwall, NY: January, 2022). 
• “Pratyabhijñā Śaivism and Lonergan: God is an Unrestricted Act of Understanding.” Lonergan and Human Consciousness (Notre Dame: December, 2021). 
• “He Was Re-Imaged Before Them:’ Eckhart’s Preaching on the Transfiguration.” 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI: May, 2021). 
• “Creation out of Nothing and Classical Yogācāra.” Midwest American Academy of Religion (April, 2021).