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Preprint2 Oct 2026

The Watchers Before the Demons: 1 Enoch, Genesis 6, and the Origins of Evil in Early Christian Thought

Grace, Daniel J.

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…

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Journal article28 Sep 2026

Before Theology Had a Name: Scripture, Worship, and the First Christian Arguments About God

Daniel J. Grace

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…

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The Watchers Before the Demons: 1 Enoch, Genesis 6, and the Origins of Evil in Early Christian Thought

Before Theology Had a Name: Scripture, Worship, and the First Christian Arguments About God

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