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Under the Sun After Modernity: Ecclesiastes, the Search for Meaning, and Christian Reading in a Postmodern Literary Culture

Daniel J. Grace

This article examines Ecclesiastes as a sustained theological and literary exploration of meaning, finitude, mortality, pleasure, labour, wisdom, and divine sovereignty. It places the book in conversation with ancient conceptions of the meaningful life while also asking why Ecclesiastes continues to resonate within…

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Participation without Absorption: Divine Indwelling, Theosis, and the Ontological Grammar of Salvation in Witness Lee

Daniel J. Grace

This article examines Witness Lee’s theology of divine-human participation through the categories of indwelling, theosis, mingling, and the Creator-creature distinction. Rather than treating Lee’s soteriology merely as an extension of his Trinitarian language, the study asks how his account of salvation construes the…

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Formed to Discern: Toward a Practical Theology of Communal Discernment for the Church

Hetrick, Kyle

Congregational discernment is frequently invoked whenever Christians gather to make decisions, yet the term often names practices that are theologically different: strategic planning opened with prayer, majority preference, clerical control, unmanaged intuition, therapeutic harmony, or religious endorsement of decisions already made. This article…

Practical TheologyView record
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Beyond the Nestorian Charge: Calvin, Chalcedon, and the Grammar of Mediatorial Unity

Grace, Daniel J.

This article reconsiders the recurring accusation that John Calvin’s Christology tends toward Nestorianism by shifting attention from denominational polemic to the theological grammar governing Calvin’s account of the incarnate Son. Rather than asking only whether Calvin can be classified as Nestorian, the study…

Systematic & Philosophical TheologyView record
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Abrasax, Abraxas, and the Making of a Modern Gnostic God: Basilidean Cosmology, Late Antique Magical Gems, Nag Hammadi Traditions, and Jung’s Reinterpretation

Grace, Daniel J.

This article re-examines Abrasax (later commonly Abraxas) by separating four historical layers frequently collapsed in modern accounts: Basilidean traditions reported by early Christian heresiologists; late antique magical gems and amulets; appearances of Abrasax in Nag Hammadi literature; and Carl Gustav Jung's twentieth-century reappropriation…

Religious Traditions & TextsView record
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Scripture, Authority, and the Word of God: Rethinking Inspiration Beyond the Dictation Model

Grace, Daniel J.

This article examines the relationship between divine inspiration, human authorship, and biblical authority, arguing that a high doctrine of Scripture does not require a mechanical or dictation model of inspiration. It distinguishes revelation, inspiration, canon, authority, inerrancy or infallibility, and interpretation as related…

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