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Christian influence is commonly measured by reach, access, authority, or institutional success. Scripture subjects it to a more demanding judgment. Jesus places authority beneath the cross, the pastoral epistles test leadership through observable character, and the fruit of the Spirit reveals whether public…
The Books of Jeu, preserved in the Coptic Bruce Codex, present one of the most unusual ritual worlds to survive from late ancient Christianity. Rather than offering a narrative gospel or a collection of moral teachings, these texts depict the risen Jesus as…
This article examines the contrasting styles and theological meanings of baptism in the Books of Jeu and in contemporary Christian practice. Preserved in the Coptic Bruce Codex, the Books of Jeu present a distinctive late ancient Christian ritual system in which Jesus directs…
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…
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…
The palimpsests preserved at St Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai contain an important body of erased Christian Palestinian Aramaic Gospel material. Recovered through modern multispectral imaging, these fragments provide evidence for both the history of biblical translation and the Christological memory of Palestinian…
The discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices is often presented in popular media as evidence that alternative Christian writings preserve a more authentic form of Christianity than the New Testament. This article challenges that conclusion by distinguishing between the physical antiquity of a…
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…
The Ethiopic tradition of the Book of Jubilees represents one of the most significant examples of ancient Jewish literature preserved within an African Christian manuscript tradition. While Jubilees originated within Second Temple Judaism, its survival primarily through Geʽez manuscripts demonstrates the complex movement…
This article examines early Georgian, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, and Geʽez biblical translation as forms of theological interpretation rather than as secondary witnesses to Greek and Latin Christianity. Each tradition emerged within a distinct cultural and ecclesial environment, yet all three demonstrate that translation…
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,…
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,…