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Nuka Church, commonly known in Georgian as Nuka-Saqdari (ნუკას საყდარი), is a small ninth-century church in the historical province of Klarjeti, today within Artvin Province in northeastern Türkiye. Its architectural scale is modest, yet its historical importance is unusually large. The monument has…
Christian theology confesses simultaneously that Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, remains fully human, and is eternally the divine Son. Yet these affirmations generate a question that is often acknowledged only indirectly: where, and in what sense, is the…
Modern Theosophy emerged in the late nineteenth century at the intersection of Spiritualism, comparative religion, evolutionary speculation, colonial knowledge, and dissatisfaction with both dogmatic Christianity and reductive materialism. This article offers a historically grounded and critically balanced account of the movement founded in…
When Christians call a gathering or movement a revival, they do more than report heightened religious activity. They attribute unusual agency to God, claim that this agency can be known, participate in shaping the movement through the act of naming it, and distribute…
Generative artificial intelligence has moved from a specialised technical instrument into an everyday conversational presence. People now ask AI systems for moral advice, biblical interpretation, prayer, vocational guidance, emotional reassurance, and answers to questions of meaning. This article examines the transfer of spiritual…
This article examines the submerged early Christian basilica in Lake İznik (ancient Nicaea) and the newly reported archaeological evidence for an earlier church phase beneath the later structure. It evaluates the possibility that this earlier sacred building was connected with the First Council…
When Georgian-speaking Christians began translating Scripture, liturgy, and patristic writing, they inherited no single Greek word that could simply be carried across as “holiness.” Greek Christian texts drew upon a crowded semantic field: hagios named what belonged to God and, substantivally, the saints;…
This article examines a problem that sits between neuroscience and Christian resurrection theology: what happens to personal identity when memory is damaged, fragmented, or lost? Dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, severe amnesia, and traumatic memory make the question difficult because autobiographical memory is closely tied…
The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, sometimes called the Gospel of the Egyptians, is one of the most complex surviving texts associated with ancient Gnostic tradition. Preserved in two Coptic witnesses in Nag Hammadi Codices III and IV, the work combines…
This article asks how Wesleyan-Holiness theology can account for sustained recovery without spiritualizing substance use disorder or reducing recovery to abstinence and clinical stabilization. Using Richard Osmer’s four practical-theological tasks, it places addiction medicine and recovery research in disciplined dialogue with Scripture and…
This article examines angelic order, the rebellion of the Watchers, forbidden knowledge, evil spirits, divine judgement, and cosmic restoration in 1 Enoch. It also considers the preservation and scriptural reception of 1 Enoch within Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christianity.
This article examines the transformation of personified Death from the Late Bronze Age religious world of Ugarit to later Jewish, Islamic, European, and Mexican traditions. It does not argue for a direct genealogical line from the Ugaritic deity Mot to the later Angel…