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The description of Pergamum as the place “where Satan’s throne is” in Revelation 2:13 has commonly been interpreted through the city’s imperial cult, monumental religious landscape, or association with Roman political authority. While these interpretations remain important, they can obscure the economic dimensions…
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 investigates one of the most challenging questions in contemporary Christology and astrotheology: if intelligent extraterrestrial life exists, would the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ on Earth be sufficient for their redemption? The study examines biblical theology, patristic theology, conciliar…
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…
Throughout human history, periods of crisis have repeatedly forced societies to confront profound questions concerning morality, meaning, authority, survival, and the future of civilisation itself. Wars, pandemics, political instability, economic collapse, social fragmentation, moral uncertainty, technological transformation, and psychological exhaustion have continually reshaped…