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Theophila Journal
Theophila: A Journal of Theology, Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts is a peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholarly work in four intellectually vibrant fields: theology (systematic, historical, contextual, dogmatic), philosophy (ancient, analytic, continental, hermeneutics, metaphysics, ethics), literature (ancient to modern, sacred or secular, poetry, drama, narrative, biography), and the arts (visual, expressive, musical).
Submit a Paper Contact the Theophila EditorSenior Editors
Stanley E. Porter
President and Dean, Professor of New Testament, Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview, Editor-in-Chief of MDC Press
Wendy J. Porter
Professor of Music and Worship, J. Gordon and Margaret Warnock Jones Chair in Church and Ministry
Clement Y. Wen
Assistant Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology, Howard and Shirley Bentall Chair in Evangelical Thought
Editorial Advisory Board
Adam Barkman (Redeemer University)
Jeremy Begbie (Duke Divinity School)
Mark J. Boda (McMaster Divinity College)
David Firth (Trinity College Bristol)
Elizabeth Fredericks (Hillsdale College)
Christina Gschwandtner (Fordham University)
Kevin Hart (Duke Divinity School)
Andrew Hollingsworth (Kairos University)
Scott Masson (Tyndale University and Seminary)
Nathan Nadeau (Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College)
Joshua Waggener (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary)
Current Volume
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Volume 1 (2026)
Articles
STANLEY E. PORTER, WENDY J. PORTER, AND CLEMENT Y. WEN
Editors’ Introduction to Theophila: A Journal of Theology, Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts3 JESSE D. HILL
The Aesthetics of Liturgical Transfiguration and Contemporary Art6 DAVID I. YOON
Annihilationism under Fire: The Semantic and Logical Fallacies of Conditional Immortality57
Submit a Paper
Guidelines
- Submissions should conform to the McMaster Divinity College Press Style Guide at the time of submission
- There are no fixed word limits for any of the submission types.
- Submission should be sent in PDF format, with no restrictions on copyright and no simultaneous submission.
Submission
To submit, complete the Journal Article Submission Form.
Question? Contact Senior Editor Dr. Stanley E. Porter at porters@mcmaster.ca.
After Submission
After peer review, authors will be informed of the decision of the editors. Accepted and finalized articles will initially be posted online on the Theophila website in fixed format, where they remain available, and published in hard form according to volume year.



