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The Churches That Forgot What Christ Remembered: Institutional Memory, Selective History, Ecclesial Truthfulness, and the Seven Churches of Revelation

Grace, Daniel J.

This academic study develops a theology of ecclesial memory through the letters to the seven churches in Revelation 2–3. It argues that the risen Christ remembers what churches selectively preserve, suppress, rename, or forget. The paper examines Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia,…

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The Christ Who Would Not Be Hurried: Jesus, Sacred Time, and Resistance to the Speed of the Modern World

Grace, Daniel J.

This academic study develops a Christ-centred theology of sacred time through close engagement with the Gospel narratives, Christology, ecclesiology, spiritual formation, and critiques of modern acceleration. It argues that Jesus Christ was never governed by public pressure, institutional demand, spectacle, or anxiety. His…

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The Church in an Age of Exhaustion: Christian Faithfulness, Sabbath, Ministry, and Human Limits in a Culture of Constant Activity

Grace, Daniel J.

his article develops a theological and ecclesiological account of exhaustion within contemporary Christian life and ministry. It argues that chronic exhaustion is not merely an individual problem of time management, but is often produced by wider cultural, institutional, technological, and theological assumptions concerning…

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