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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 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…
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…
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 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…
This article explores the historical, geographical, cultural, and theological significance of the Seven Churches of Revelation: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Located within the Roman province of Asia in present-day western Turkey, these cities occupied strategic positions along major trade…
This article explores the rise of the first urban Christian churches in Corinth during the height of the Roman Empire. It examines how Christianity emerged within one of the ancient world’s most cosmopolitan and commercially powerful cities, shaped by trade, migration, social inequality,…