Similar concepts and terms appeared or developed in various traditional and contemporary religious or spiritual doctrines and texts, and also within secular disciplines such as psychotherapy, rehabilitation medicine, and counseling.

Further, when both Berengar and his critics used the secular disciplines of logic and grammar to express a matter of Christian doctrine, the way was open to the scholasticism of the twelfth century.

In our age when Western Philosophy deconstructs the possibility of metaphysics, he sees the Lurianic scheme as an essence-myth that transcends and incorporates secular disciplines, allowing it to re-open the possibilities of philosophy.

This process both enriches the secular disciplines, while giving intellectual insights into the Lurianic myth through revealing its facets in human life.

This approach seeks to enrich the secular disciplines, while uncovering intellectual insights formerly implicit in kabbalah's essential myth:

Having dismissed the secular disciplines one by one, Faustus returns for a moment to his first love, theology.

Because Haredi Judaism accords unique status to traditional Jewish thought, while downplaying the need to look to secular disciplines, it seeks theological answers from faithful reinterpretations of Judaism alone.

His defense of religious studies as a secular discipline helped the formation of departments in many public universities, especially in the United States.

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch commented in 1854 that Hirsch held that Judaism demands an application of Torah thought to the entire realm of human experience, including the secular disciplines.

Professors at the university are recruited from sacred (i.e., theology, canon law, etc.) and secular disciplines (e.g., letters, philosophy, education, social sciences, economics).