“Sólo Jesús,” Hispanic Modalism, Oneness Christology, and Paul’s First Epistles

“Sólo Jesús,” Hispanic Modalism, Oneness Christology, and Paul’s First Epistles Daniel S. Steffen, PhD This paper proposes to explain the popular hispanic modalistic or “Oneness” Christology as to its particular beliefs and strong influence in several Latin American nations.1 The movement is known as “Sólo Jesús,” in Spanish. This explanation includes comparing and contrasting this … Read more

Ancient Literacy, Manuscripts, and AI: Who Could’ve Written or Read Creeds in the Early Church?

New Testament text and manuscript studies intersect with a variety of disciplines—including paleography, art history, exegesis, paratext, linguistics, and conservation—to enrich our understanding of how the New Testament was transmitted and received within its broader historical context. Each of these fields is itself interdisciplinary, drawing on historical sources from diverse cultures and periods. Given the … Read more

The Resurrection: From Creedal Statements to the Foundation of High Christology

This study examines how the core proclamation of the apostolic speeches in Acts, particularly the creedal statement “God raised Jesus”, functions as a foundational theological statement with significant implications for New Testament theology and systematic theology. After identifying the creedal statement within primary speeches in Acts through a structural linguistic analysis, this study traces its … Read more

Creedal Formulations as Ecclesial Fideism: Protestant Hermeneutics

While Evangelicals reject Roman Catholic ecclesiology—including magisterial authority and depositum fidei—their use of creedal terms like ὁμοούσιος (consubstantial) and hypostatic union risks conflating ecclesial interpretations with the apostolic teaching “once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). Though Scripture’s narrative-doxological witness to Christ’s deity (John 1:1–18; Colossians 1:15–20) resists systematic retrojection, creeds impose metaphysical … Read more