- 2025. Presupposition of Revealed Truth: On First Principles, Revelation, and the Ground of Rationality. Iman Motlagh Arani. On the philosophical necessity of divine Revelation as the foundational axiom of thought. Every philosophical system depends on unprovable first principles. The Manifestations are not only the source of revelation but also the ontological axis of truth. Articles-unpublished.
- 2023-07. Mind: "The Power of the Human Spirit". Gerald Filson. Correlating Bahá’í concepts of the mind with insights from philosophy; conceptual ways of knowing; implications of language for philosophy of mind; science and religion both shed light on the capacities and nature of the mind, including the spiritual. Articles.
- 2021. Harmony of Science and Religion, The. Steven Phelps. Background; antecedent teachings; ineffability, metaphor, and epistemic humility; intelligibility of the universe and the elevation of rational thought; emanation and degrees of being; necessary relationships; relativity of religious truth. Articles.
- 2020-04-10. Writings of the Báb, The: Notes from Talks given by Dr. Nader Saiedi. Nader Saiedi, Anonymous, comp. . Structured summarized notes from Dr. Saiedi’s 2019 talks on the Báb’s Writings, delivered at the Swedish and Norwegian Bahá'í summer school 2019, highlighting key theological concepts and themes. Includes some provisional translations quoted in the talks. Talks.
- 2019. Writings of the Báb: Lecture Series at the Norwegian Summer School. Nader Saiedi. On topics including the concept of God; Manifestations of God; Day of Resurrection, heaven and hell; the Imamate, the Hidden Imam; divine justice and free will; reason, independence; human rights, equality, women. Links to audio files, offsite. Audio.
- 2014. Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age. Nader Saiedi. A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Bahá'í history, key writings, and the need for scholarly study, translation, and contextual analysis of Bahá'í texts. Audio.
- 2013. Reason and the Bahá'í Writings. Ian Kluge. The Bahá'í Faith has much to say on the importance of reason, logic, and a "rational God," but the mind alone is not sufficient to attain transrational understanding. This paper examines the uses and limitations of reason in light of cultural differences. Articles.
- 2013. La Raison dans les Ecrits baha'is: Son importance, sa fonction, son usage. Ian Kluge, Pierre Spierckel, trans. . French translation of "Reason and the Bahá'í Writings." Articles.
- 2013. Subtraction Narratives. Benjamin Schewel. On the claims that religion flourishes when ignorance, powerlessness, and passivity govern human life, giving way to a more secular rationalism; on the thought of Daniel Dennett, John Dewey, and Maurice Gauchet. Articles-unpublished.
- 2010-12. Material and Spiritual Worlds. Peter J. Khan. Four talks on the Five-Year Plan given at the North Island Bahá'í Summer School, Hamilton, New Zealand, December 2010. Audio.
- 2005-11. Collected Essays. John Wiegley. Dozens of essays on numerous topics of Bahá'í thought and practice. Books.
- 2002. Theological Responses to Modernity in the Nineteenth-century Middle East. Oliver Scharbrodt. With their theologies, Bahá'u'lláh and Muhammad 'Abduh both responded to the challenge of modernity and sought change, but while 'Abduh remained on the grounds of the Islamic tradition, Bahá'u'lláh founded a new religion. Articles.
- 2001. Human Intellect, The: A Bahá'í-Inspired Perspective. Adrian John Davis. A Bahá'í-Sufi comparative study exploring similarities and key differences between the Perfect Man and Manifestation of God as expressions of Divine Will. Articles.
- 2001. Rationality in Academic Disciplines. K. P. Mohanan. For an academic community to construct knowledge through teamwork, its members must have a shared language with the same pairings of concepts and words, and they must have shared epistemic values by which to "dialogue" and base collective decisions. Articles.
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