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A Critical Negative Theology of Dialogue: The Coincidence of Reason and Revelation in Communicative Openness

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The Deaths of God in Hegel and Nietzsche and the Crisis of Values in Secular Modernity and in Post-secular Postmodernity

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Apophasis and the Turn of Philosophy to Religion: From Neoplatonic Negative Theology to Postmodern Negation of Theology

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Edmond Jabès, or the Endless Self-Emptying of Language in the Name of God          
                                                                                                          
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Virgil, History, Prophecy
                                                                                   

                              Project Muse                                  (Excerpt)

Rozenzweig and the Emergence of a Post-Secular Philosophy of the Unsayable


Varieties and Valences of Unsayability in Literature

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Metaphor and the Making of Sense:  The Contemporary Metaphor Renaissance

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Apocalypse and the Breaking-Open of Dialogue:  A Negatively Theological Perspective


Primordial Sacrifice, Typology and the Theological Vocation of Literature: Extending Gian Balsamo's Interpretation of Joyce and Christian Epic


Linguistic Repetition as Theological Revelation in Christian Epic Tradition:  The Case of Joyce's  'Finnegans Wake'

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"The Missing All": Emily Dickinson's Apophatic Poetics


Existentialism: An Atheistic or a Christian Philosophy?

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"Dante's Inferno as Poetic Revelation of Prophetic Truth" 

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"Dante and Modern Hermeneutic Thought"


Blind Prophecy: Milton's Figurative Mode in Paradise Lost and in Some Minor Poems


The Rhetorical-Theological Presence of Romans in Dante: A Comparison of Methods in Philosophical Perspective




Scanned Articles

Journal of Religion 88/3 (2008): 365-392

                International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 47/2 (2000): 65-86

                Literature and Belief 19/1,2 (1999): 261-284


                In Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion, ed. Eugene Long,
Special issue of International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 60, numbers 1-3 (2006): 61-76

                The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature, chapter 46
                Eds. Christopher Rowland, Christine Joynes, Rebecca Lemon, Emma Masson, Jonathan Roberts
                (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), pp. 642-53,

                Modern Language Notes 109 (1994): 117-127

               ["The Name of God as the Vanity of Language in the Heart of Every Word"]
               trans. by Martine Prieto and Geoffrey Obin,
Edmond Jabès : L'éclosion des énigmes, pp. 249-260
eds. Daniel Lançon et Catherine Mayaux
(Vincennes: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2007)
(Paris: Littérature Hors Frontières, 2008)

            Literature and Theology 22/1 (2008): 1-17
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 58/3 (2005): 161-180

          In Art and Time, ed. Jan Lloyd Jones et al. (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing,2007),
            pp. 39-56 

                 Philosophy and Rhetoric 33/2 (2000): 137-154.

                Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 12/1 (2004): 111-31.
                     (Introduction with original translation from the Greek of De principiis, Part I, cc 3-8)
                Reconstructing Realities: Occident-Orient Engagements.
eds. Ganakumaran Subramaniam, Shanthini Pillai and Hafriza Burhanudeen 
(Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Longman, 2007), pp. 41-52

                Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 11/1 (2006): 143-173

                In Core Texts in Conversation, eds. Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, David Sokolowski, and J. Scott Lee
                (Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2000), pp. 149-154.

                Dialogue: The Canadian Philosophical Review 38 (1998): 65-81.

                Preface to Gian Balsamo, Scriptural Poetics in Finnegans Wake 
 (Lewisburg, New York: Edwin Mellin Press, 2002), pp. v-xiii

                Religion and Literature 39/2 (Spring 2007): 1-32
                (2006 Annual Religion and Literature Lecture, University of Notre Dame)

                National Literatures in the Age of Globalization. The Issue of the Canon
(University of Bucharest)

                In The Dante Encyclopedia (New York-London: Garland Publishing, 2000),
                     pp. 376-79, 11, 216-17, 524-525, 885-86.

                In Poetry Criticism,vol. 51, ed. Carol Ullman (Kennedale, TX: Gale Group, 2004), pp. 146-52
                     [Reprinted from Yeats-Eliot Review 15, no. 3: 23-32]

                Comparative Literature 59/3 (2007): 209-227

                Journal of Contemporary Thought 25 (Summer, 2007): 5-24

                Christianity and Literature 58/1 (2008):  61-80

“The Linguistic Turning of the Symbol: Baudelaire and his French Symbolist Heirs”
           In Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity, volume in Honor of Claude Pichois,
ed Patricia Ward (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000), pp. 28-40.

In Imaginatio Creatrix, ed. A.-T. Tymieniecka, Analecta Husserliana LXXXIII (2004): 65-83.
A Comparison of Methods in Philosophical Perspective”
In Medieval Readings of  Romans, eds. William S. Campbell, Peter S. Hawkins, Brenda Dean Schildgen  (New York: T & T Clark International, 2007)., pp. 142-52

                In Universality and History: The Foundations of Core, ed. Don Thompson, Darrel Colson, and J.
     Scott Lee (Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2002), pp. 59-70

“Varieties and Valences of Unsayability in Literature”
           Philosophy and Literature 29/2 (2005): 489-497


                Philosophy and Literature 29 (2005): 73-88



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