JAY G. WILLIAMS

Degrees

• Ph.D., Columbia University
  Dissertation: "The Life and Thought of Benjamin Whichcote"
• M.Div., Union Theological Seminary
• A.B., Hamilton College

Publications

Books:

• Yeshua Buddha (Quest, 1978)
• A Spiritual Approach to Male/Female Relations, co-author (Quest, 1984)
• The Riddle of the Sphinx (University Press of America,1990)
• Along the Silk Route: A Journey of the Spirit (Gwenfrewi Santes, 1991)
• Matters of Life and Death (Gwenfrewri Santes,1993)
• The Stupa, The Lingam, and the Cross (under consideration)
• Dark Trees and Empty Sky (Gwenfrewi Santes, 1996)
• Memory Stones (Purple Mountain Press, 1993), a book of photographs
• A Reassessment of Absolute Skepticism and Religious Faith (Edwin Mellen Press, 1996)

Articles and Reviews:

• "The Contribution of Claude Levi Strauss to the Study of Religion," Journal of Religious Studies (Spring, 1980)
• "The Unity of the World's Religions: Buddhism, Christianity, and the Hasidism," American Theosophist (April, 1980)
• "Scripture as Kung-An" Theosophist (India) (August, 1981)
• "What's so Secret about the Secret Doctrine," Gnosis, (July, 1989)
• "The Vimalarkirti nirdesa Sutra: The Comedy of Paradox" Pacific World (Fall, 1990)
• "Epimenides, Self-Referentiality, and the Lotus Sutra," Journal of Religious Studies (Fall, 1990)
• "Return to the Roots: Platonic Philosophy and the I Ching," Cheng Feng (January, 1991)
• "On Reading a Confucian Classic: The Rhetoric of the Lun Yu," Journal for the Study of Chinese Religion (Fall, 1991)
• "Speechless Before the Mystery," Quest (1993) (Also published in The Theosophist, Madras, India, 1994)
• "Mahayana Buddhism," "Chinese Buddhism," "Gotama Siddharta," "Theravada Buddhism," "Early Buddhism," Theosophical Encyclopedia (submitted)

Forwards:

• Henry Wei, The Authentic I Ching (Newcastle Publishing House, 1987)

• "Knowing Religiously" - 5 tapes distributed by Krotona Institute, Ojai, California (1992)

• "Has it always been like this," Y Drych, Nov. 1988 (Winner: 1st prize: Welsh-American Eisteddfod)
• "And Have We Never Met Before," Y Delyn, Sept. 1988
• "Reverie," American Poetry Anthology: 1988
• "The Burning," Theology Today, July 1990
• "The First Sign," Theology Today, April 1992
• "Henry Ford Reflects," First place, Y Drych Eisteddfod-By-Mail, 1992
• "It is Easter Now," Program for the Opening of Frederick Franck's The Tao of the Cross.
• "Nimrod," Theology Today, April 1993
• "X" (1993) Winner Eisteddfod-gan-Post
• "Summer Song" (1993) Second place winner, Eisteddfod-gan-Post
• "Saturday Night Vigil" Christian Century
• "The Hook" (under consideration)

• Participated in 1988 in an NEH summer seminar on the philosophy of Nagarjuna at the University of Hawaii in Manoa.
• Participated in 1992 in an NEH summer institute on Indian Art at Columbia University, NYC.

• Who's Who in Religion
• Who's Who Among Intellectuals
• Who's Who in Biblical Studies and Archaeology
• Who's Who in Poetry

• a biography of the famous 19th Century Orientalist, Edward Robinson
• employing classical Asian philosophical concepts (particularly as found it the writings of Nagarjuna and Chuang Tzu) to contemporary philosophy of religion
• the spiritual implications of Asian and American landscape painting