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The Gospel of Thomas is frequently described in popular culture as a suppressed secret gospel that preserves an alternative Christianity based on hidden knowledge. This article argues that such descriptions flatten a far more complicated text and scholarly debate. Thomas is a collection…
Exorcism was one of the practices through which early Christians publicly distinguished their religious claims from surrounding ritual cultures. This article surveys Christian exorcistic discourse before Constantine, concentrating on Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Origen. It argues that exorcism functioned simultaneously as pastoral…
Melchizedek appears only briefly in Genesis, yet later Jewish and Christian texts turned this enigmatic priest-king into a major theological figure. This article traces the movement from Genesis 14 and Psalm 110 to the Qumran text 11QMelchizedek and the Epistle to the Hebrews.…
This article examines the Enochic Watchers tradition as one of the most influential ancient explanations of the origin of demons and the spread of corruption before the flood. Beginning with Genesis 6:1-4 and the Book of the Watchers in 1 Enoch 1-36, it…
This article examines Matthew 11:28–30 as a pastoral and theological word for contemporary ministry. It argues that Christ’s invitation to the weary is more than emotional comfort; it is a gospel-shaped call to come to Christ and find rest under his gentle yoke.…
This article argues that Christian theology should not understand science as a rival explanatory system but as a complementary mode of inquiry into created reality. Theology is concerned not only with historical doctrines or biblical interpretation, but with questions of ultimate reality, existence,…
This article examines how isolation, hospitality, and Christian agency intersect within the broken ground of public life. The piece puts forward the view that to see isolation as mere loneliness or a kind of social distance is to miss its deeper character: it…
This article develops a biblical theology of ecological responsibility for an age in which human beings possess unprecedented capacities to alter natural systems. It argues that the biblical language of dominion cannot be read as a warrant for unrestricted technological mastery. Genesis 1…
This article asks when Christian theology can properly be said to have begun. Rather than locating its origins primarily in the second-century Apologists, the major patristic theologians, or the conciliar period, it argues that theological reasoning was already present within the earliest Christian…
This article examines Ecclesiastes as a sustained theological and literary exploration of meaning, finitude, mortality, pleasure, labour, wisdom, and divine sovereignty. It places the book in conversation with ancient conceptions of the meaningful life while also asking why Ecclesiastes continues to resonate within…
This article examines Witness Lee’s theology of divine-human participation through the categories of indwelling, theosis, mingling, and the Creator-creature distinction. Rather than treating Lee’s soteriology merely as an extension of his Trinitarian language, the study asks how his account of salvation construes the…
Congregational discernment is frequently invoked whenever Christians gather to make decisions, yet the term often names practices that are theologically different: strategic planning opened with prayer, majority preference, clerical control, unmanaged intuition, therapeutic harmony, or religious endorsement of decisions already made. This article…