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This article examines the Enochic Watchers tradition as one of the most influential ancient explanations of the origin of demons and the spread of corruption before the flood. Beginning with Genesis 6:1-4 and the Book of the Watchers in 1 Enoch 1-36, it…
This article argues that Christian theology should not understand science as a rival explanatory system but as a complementary mode of inquiry into created reality. Theology is concerned not only with historical doctrines or biblical interpretation, but with questions of ultimate reality, existence,…
This article asks when Christian theology can properly be said to have begun. Rather than locating its origins primarily in the second-century Apologists, the major patristic theologians, or the conciliar period, it argues that theological reasoning was already present within the earliest Christian…
This article examines the origins of episcopal adjudication before the reign of Constantine. Rather than treating imperial legislation as the beginning of Christian judicial authority, it argues that bishops were already resolving disputes within Christian communities during the second and third centuries. Beginning…