Abstract. This essay examines how theological journals distinguish legitimate AI assistance from the substitution of human authorship, especially when argument and prose develop through sustained human–AI dialogue. Beginning with a practical comparison of submission policies, I reconstruct the objections, documentary checks, mistaken readings, and exchanges that transformed the inquiry into a question about scholarly authority. The analysis distinguishes the value of a contribution, the justification of its claims, the allocation of credit, and eligibility under a journal’s rules. It argues…
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