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This research article examines the discreet theological language of early Christian epigraphy before Constantine. It focuses on funerary inscriptions, graffiti, symbolic vocabulary, Roman burial conventions, and the Abercius Inscription. The article argues that early Christian inscriptions should not be understood as evidence of…
This article examines artificial intelligence and consciousness from a Christian theological perspective. It distinguishes computational intelligence from subjective awareness and considers whether artificial systems could possess consciousness, personhood, moral agency, or spiritual identity. Drawing upon Christian anthropology, the biblical doctrine of the image…
This article develops a Christian theology of eternal memory in conversation with modern psychology, trauma studies, neuroscience, and philosophical accounts of personal identity. It asks whether people who experience severe trauma, amnesia, dementia, brain injury, or other disruptions of autobiographical memory will have…
What happens when the Church tries to influence the world without becoming part of it? Drawing from Christ's message to the church in Pergamum, this article explores one of the most difficult challenges facing Christians today: remaining faithful without withdrawing from society. It…
Religion in the Roman Empire was deeply intertwined with politics, social identity, and public life. Unlike modern distinctions between church and state, Roman religion functioned as an essential component of civic loyalty and imperial unity. Traditional worship of the Roman gods existed alongside…
This article explores the rise of the first urban Christian churches in Corinth during the height of the Roman Empire. It examines how Christianity emerged within one of the ancient world’s most cosmopolitan and commercially powerful cities, shaped by trade, migration, social inequality,…