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The Technocene Covenant: Cyber Ecology, Rewilding, and Eschatological Participation in the Renewal of Creation

Grace, Daniel J.

The ecological crisis is unfolding within a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, autonomous machines, digital monitoring, and planetary technological systems. Christian environmental thought has often responded through the language of stewardship. Although stewardship has encouraged responsibility toward the natural world, it can…

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The Disposable Society and the God Who Restores: Why Christian Restoration Begins Where Usefulness Ends

Hetrick, Kyle

The Disposable Society and the God Who Restores examines the tension between accountability and human dignity in a culture increasingly shaped by disposability. Drawing on Scripture, Wesleyan-Holiness theology, and the Salvationist tradition, the essay argues that Christian restoration begins with the conviction that…

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The Theology of Animals and Non-Human Creation: Romans 8:19–22 and the Redemption of the Animal Kingdom

Grace, Daniel J.

Traditional systematic theology has often treated animals as secondary to humanity, mentioning them within creation and providence while rarely developing their theological and eschatological significance. This article addresses that gap through Romans 8:19–22 and related biblical texts. The article argues that non-human creation…

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Environmental Theology and Material Scarcity in Early Irish Monasticism

Grace, Daniel J.

Early Irish monasticism is examined as a practical theology of material scarcity. Rather than treating environmental theology as a modern concern imposed upon medieval sources, this article identifies ecological and economic assumptions embedded within monastic rules, penitential discipline, hospitality, labour, property, food distribution,…

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The Theology of Mundane Matter in Late Antiquity: Church Property, Material Resources, and Everyday Economic Practice in the Early Christian World

Grace, Daniel J.

This article examines the practical management of material resources in late-antique Christian communities. While histories of early Christianity often concentrate on councils, creeds, bishops, and theological controversies, churches also had to manage land, buildings, oil, wax, grain, clothing, liturgical objects, donations, charitable distributions,…

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Remembering the Human Cost of Early Christianity

Grace, Daniel J.

Modern scholarship has rightly challenged simplified representations of early Christianity as a completely unified movement subjected to continuous, empire-wide persecution. Christian communities differed in theology, practice, authority, and textual tradition, while Roman responses to Christianity varied considerably across periods and regions. Nevertheless, critical…

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The Seven Churches of Revelation: A Theological and Historical Study

Grace, Daniel J.

This paper presents a theological and historical study of the seven churches addressed in Revelation chapters 2–3. By examining the biblical text alongside its first-century historical and cultural context, the study explores the spiritual condition, challenges, and distinctive messages given to each church:…

Biblical Studies & InterpretationView record
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The Trade Routes of the Text: The Economic Micro-History of Early Christian Manuscripts

Grace, Daniel J.

his article examines the economic and material history behind the production and circulation of early Christian manuscripts. It argues that Christian texts did not spread through theology alone, but through networks of papyrus production, copying labour, private patronage, household communities, couriers, merchants, ports,…

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Faith Hidden in Stone: Christian Epigraphy, Discreet Identity, and Material Resistance before Constantine

Grace, Daniel J.

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…

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Deep Space and the Scope of Salvation: Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Multiple Incarnations, and the Cosmic Christ

Grace, Daniel J.

The possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life has moved from the margins of theological speculation into a subject of serious interdisciplinary discussion. Advances in astronomy, astrobiology, and the discovery of thousands of exoplanets have prompted renewed consideration of whether Christian theology possesses adequate conceptual…

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Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness: A Christian Theological Evaluation of Mind, Personhood, and Human Uniqueness

Grace, Daniel J.

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…

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