We live in a highly imaginative world. The screens and surfaces that surround us display myriad images. And yet, a sense of confusion or emptiness…

The so-called “Middle Ages” are often perceived as a period in which God was placed at the center of humanity’s intellectual and spiritual world, whereas…

In the academic study of religion, one useful methodology for a comparative phenomenology of the world’s religions is paradigm analysis, in which each religion can…

The words “artificial intelligence” beg questions and lead to assumptions. What is intelligence? How does it differ from information-processing? Do we, in any case, need…

For more than fifteen hundred years the terrain of Christian Prayer has been fundamentally partitioned into two categories: cataphatic, or “prayer of form,” drawing on…

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels document a great struggle to justify religious faith in an age dominated by the secular sciences. His most famous characters—The Underground Man…

Daoism is relatively unknown and understudied in the West. Many people still have never heard of Daoism. It is neither considered a world religion, even…

The Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two faiths which hold it sacred, it is the bedrock of their religion, a…