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Formal Studies of Daniel C. Doran

Post-Doctoral and In-Service Education

academically accredited research sabbaticals, forums, study groups, workshops, colloquiums, conferences, apprenticeships, training sessions, symposiums, etc.

having to do with

analytic and speculative philosophy, systematic theology,

social history of modernity, authoritative texts of Mediterranean antiquity,

psychology of personality, client care and therapeutic procedures,

cross-cultural anthropology, sociology of values, political economy,

dialectical logic, Greco-Roman/Middle Eastern idioms and rhetoric

from 1975 to the present and on-going, with various institutions and organizations,

at various locations; request itemized CV[s] for particulars

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Ph.D., Philosophy

University of Detroit, School of Humanities, 1975, Detroit, Michigan

Concentration in Aesthetics and Hermeneutics

Dissertation: "Truth is Beauty: An Analysis of Artistic Sensitivity and Creativity as Fundamental Sources of Knowledge of Future Possibility Based on the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne and Other Constructive Post-Modernist Philosophers"

Published in book form by the Center for Process Studies as Beauty as Truth, 1979 at the Claremont Graduate University Press, Claremont, Clalifornia

M.A., Counseling Psychology

University of Detroit, School of Human Sciences, 1974, Detroit, Michigan

Concentration in knowledge systems and clinical practices

based on the sciences of mind and personality, adult social relations

and on-site and/or institutional goals and procedures

from client-centered Existentialist-Humanistic-Jungian perspectives

Apprenticeship, Cedars of Lebanon Residential Care Facility,

Northville, Michigan

M.A., Religious Studies

University of Detroit, School of Humanities, 1974, Detroit, Michigan

Concentration in the Philosophy of Religion

Thesis: "Similarities and Dissimilarities among Ontologies and Epistemologies of the Major World Faiths"

Post-Graduate Studies

Summer Seminars 1973-1975

Metaphysics and Cosmologies of India and China

Sociology of Modern and Contemporary Religious Institutions

North American History of Religions

Psychology of Spirituality and Mysticism

University of Michigan, College of Liberal Arts

Ann Arbor, Michigan and

Summer Lecture Series, 1974 and 1975

Theories and Practices of Social Ethics

Modernist and Postmodernist Skepticism

Praxis of Asian Spiritual Disciplines

Contemporary Methods of Textual Interpretation

Duns Scotus and Madonna Colleges

Southfield and Livonia, Michigan respectively

(through their participation in

The Consortium of Institutions of Higher Learning

in the Greater Detroit Area)

M.Div., Clergy Preparation

St. John's Theologate and Major Seminary 1972-1975, Plymouth, Michigan

Summa cum laude fulfillment of all academic course requirements for biblical, doctrinal, moral, sacramental, homiletic and pastoral studies;

Practicum assignments with the Southfield Meeting House for the Disciples of Christ (Christian Church), The First Unitarian-Universalist Church of Detroit, Central Regional Office for the Episcopalian Third Order of St. Francis, All Souls Congregationalist Chapel of Farmington (UCC), Metropolitan Community Church of Highland Park, Royal Oak chapter of the Ethical Culture Society, Basilica of the Holy Spirit [for Reform, Old and Liberal Catholics] (Grosse Pointe Farms) and the Southeastern Michigan branch of the Spiritual Humanists Union.

B. A. Humanities

summa cum laude

Bellarmine University, Bardstown and Louisville, Kentucky, 1972

Double Major: Western Philosophy, English Literature