This article retrieves the Lutheran category of Anfechtung as a resource for Christian theology at the point where psychological suffering becomes spiritually disorienting. Anfechtung names more than ordinary temptation: in Luther’s usage it can encompass assault, trial, terror, accusation, divine hiddenness, despair, and…
Cross-cultural comparison often begins with a real observation and ends with an unjustified genealogy. Similar names, images, foods, technologies, or religious functions may reflect historical transmission, but they may also arise through independent adaptation, recurring engineering constraints, or later metaphorical reuse. This article…
When Christians call a gathering or movement a revival, they do more than report heightened religious activity. They attribute unusual agency to God, claim that this agency can be known, participate in shaping the movement through the act of naming it, and distribute…
This article asks how Wesleyan-Holiness theology can account for sustained recovery without spiritualizing substance use disorder or reducing recovery to abstinence and clinical stabilization. Using Richard Osmer’s four practical-theological tasks, it places addiction medicine and recovery research in disciplined dialogue with Scripture and…
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 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…
This article develops a Christian theology of eternal memory in conversation with modern psychology, trauma studies, neuroscience, and philosophical accounts of personal identity. It asks whether people who experience severe trauma, amnesia, dementia, brain injury, or other disruptions of autobiographical memory will have…
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…
This article examines the theological, ethical, ecclesiological, and pastoral problems that arise when Christian churches and organisations prioritise institutional reputation, public image, leadership platforms, or organisational survival over truth, accountability, justice, and care for those harmed. Drawing upon biblical theology, the prophetic tradition,…
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…
This article examines the growing tendency within contemporary Christianity to treat cultural influence, political access, institutional visibility, and digital reach as primary indicators of ecclesial success. It argues that influence is not inherently opposed to Christian mission but becomes theologically disordered when detached…
The digital age has transformed not only how churches communicate but also how Christians attend, remember, worship, and form spiritual habits. This article argues that attention is not merely a psychological resource but a theological concern because what believers repeatedly attend to shapes…