Matthew Vale
Assistant Professor
Matthew Vale
Contact
Stokes Hall 431N
Telephone: 617-552-4603
Email: valema@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Rice University
- M.T.S., University of Notre Dame
- Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Courses
- Buddhism and Christianity in Dialogue
- Mah膩y膩na Buddhism: Thought and Practice
- Buddhism and Christianity: Contemplative Responses to Suffering听
Research Interests
- Buddhist-Christian Comparative Theology
- Indian and Tibetan Buddhism (Yog膩c膩ra, Mah膩mudr膩, Dzogchen)
- Historical Hindu-Buddhist exchange
- Christian Systematic Theology (God, creation, Christology, eschatology)
- Contemplative practice in Buddhism and Christianity
Dissertation
Christian Vij帽膩nav膩da: Yog膩c膩ra, Nondual Cognition, and Christian Theology
Publications and Presentations
Selected Publications
鈥淓riugena and Indian Thought.鈥� In preparation for peer-reviewed special issue of ModernTheology.鈥�
God鈥檚 Primal, ex nihilo 鈥榊es.鈥欌�� Syndicate Network symposium response to Brian Robinette, TheDifference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation (Notre Dame: University ofNotre Dame Press, 2023). February 2023 .听听.Co-panelists James Alison, Scott Cowdell, Mark Heim, Chelsea King, Danielle Nussberger,and Cody Sandschafer.
鈥淜nowing the Real: Nonduality and Idealism in Dign膩ga, Dharmak墨rti, and Lonergan,鈥滲uddhist-Christian Studies 42 (October 2022): 217鈥�236.
鈥淓ckhart鈥檚 Systematics: Christ the God-Human Ground.鈥� Modern Theology 38, no. 4 (October2022): 754鈥�776.
鈥淒harmak墨rti and the Theologians: Pratyabhij帽膩 艢aivism and Christian Theological Reading.鈥滳ithara 60, no. 1 (November 2020): 6鈥�27.
Selected Recent Presentations
鈥淣atural Liberation: A Christian Reception of Mah膩mudr膩.鈥� Catholic Theological Society ofAmerica 鈥� Comparative Theology Topic Session (Milwaukee: June, 2023).
鈥淏uddhist Receptions of Christian Theology in the Work of John Makransky.鈥� EuropeanAcademy of Religion annual conference (St. Andrew鈥檚, Scotland: June, 2023). Convener forpanel 鈥淏uddhist-Christian Dialogue from the Inside Out.鈥� Co-panelists: John Makransky, BrianRobinette, Perry Schmidt-Leukel (University of M眉nster).
鈥淧oints of Contact with Perspectives I: Greco-Buddhism in Antiquity and its Relation toCynicism, Stoicism, and Pyrrhonism.鈥� May Workshop presentation for Perspectives on WesternCivilization program (Boston College: May 17 th , 2023).Respondent to Felix Wilfred, 鈥淏uddhism 鈥� A Civilizational Cosmopolitanism.鈥� Lecture three ofthe annual Duffy Lectures in Global Christianity (Boston College: February 2 nd , 2023).
鈥淭he Word鈥檚 One Descent in Eriugena鈥檚 Periphyseon.鈥� Notre Dame Conference on MedievalPhilosophy and Theology (Notre Dame: May, 2022).
鈥淪elf-Awareness and God.鈥� International Network in Philosophy of Religion (Cornwall, NY:January, 2022).
鈥淧ratyabhij帽膩 艢aivism and Lonergan: God is an Unrestricted Act of Understanding.鈥� Lonerganand Human Consciousness (Notre Dame: December, 2021).鈥溾��
He Was Re-Imaged Before Them:鈥� Eckhart鈥檚 Preaching on the Transfiguration.鈥� 55thInternational Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI: May, 2021).鈥�
Creation out of Nothing and Classical Yog膩c膩ra.鈥� Midwest American Academy of Religion(AAR) (April, 2021).