Contribute to the standard.
Numa Verse is building theology as a community. The scholarship the Church already trusts is the baseline, and theologians, scholars, pastors and students build on it together. Every contribution is peer-reviewed, and every accepted contribution carries its author’s name.
Who
Who contributes?
Anyone who studies, teaches or writes theology at a serious level. Contributors range from senior faculty with decades of published work to students in their first years of study. They come from many traditions, universities and seminaries, and they review one another’s work.
Theologians
Authors of published and peer-reviewed work.Scholars
Faculty and researchers in the fields of study.Students
Master’s and doctoral students of theology.Pastors
Ministers who teach from the text every week.The work
What can you contribute?
Work on the topics and themes in the standard. You can add what the published baseline is missing, verify what is already written, answer questions readers and other contributors raise, and propose what the standard should take up next. You choose the topics that match your field.
Add
Fill a gap the published baseline leaves open.Verify
Check what is written against the sources.Answer
Respond to questions the community raises.Shape
Propose the topics the standard takes up next.Open now
Which topics need contributors?
Every one of the 31 fields of study is open to contributors. The six fields below are where work is already under way, so a contribution there joins the first topics the standard publishes. Textual criticism leads the order, since every field relies on an established text.
Review and credit
How is your work reviewed and credited?
By your peers, and by name. Each contribution is reviewed by others in its field, then accepted, returned for revision, or declined with reasons. Accepted work enters the standard with your name on it and the names of those who reviewed it.
- Step 1
Submit to a topic
- Step 2
Peer review
- Step 3
Revise or accept
- Step 4
Credited by name
Roles
Which role fits you?
There are four contributor roles, matched to level of study. Each role is paid per accepted contribution, under a contributor agreement that sets out the rates and terms. Your role decides the kind of work you take on and the work you review.
- Role 1
Scribe
For students of theology - Role 2
Steward
For pastors and graduates - Role 3
Scholar
For master’s and doctoral theologians - Role 4
Master Scholar
For senior faculty and published authors
Where a paid contributor is quoted on this site, the quote carries the line: [Name] is a paid Numa Verse contributor.
Institutions
How can universities and seminaries take part?
As partners in a shared standard for theology. Faculty can contribute and review, students can contribute under supervision, and published works can enter the baseline with full citation. A partnership gives an institution’s scholarship a place in a standard that people, churches and AI rely on.
A shared standard for theology, curated by scholars
Scholars Fund
Education fund
What is the Radix Scholars Fund?
An education fund for students of theology, funded monthly by Numa Verse. Awards are made on need and merit and paid to the student’s school. The fund is hosted by an independent charity, and contributing to the standard is not a condition of receiving an award.
Apply
How do I apply to contribute?
Applications open on 1 February 2027. Until then, register your interest with the form here and we send you the full application on the day it opens. The application asks about your study, your institution and a sample of your work, and we reply to every application.
One email on the day
The application, sent when it opens.Your details stay private
Used only for your application. Never sold.
Register your interest
Questions
Questions from contributors
How am I paid?
Per accepted contribution, at the rate for your role. The rates and payment method are set out in the contributor agreement you sign before your first contribution. Payment follows acceptance, not submission.
Who owns what I write?
[Counsel to confirm. The contributor agreement sets out the rights in your contributions and how they may be used across Numa Verse products.]
Will my name be shown?
Yes. Accepted work carries your name, and your reviewers’ names, as part of the standard’s record. If you want to contribute without being named publicly, say so in your application.
Do I have to state a tradition?
No. It is optional. Some contributors share it so we can match them with the Traditions layer of a topic. If you choose to share it, we ask for your consent first.
Do I need a doctorate to contribute?
No. Each of the four roles matches a level of study, from students of theology as Scribes to senior faculty and published authors as Master Scholars. Every contribution is peer-reviewed in the same way, whatever the contributor’s role.
From the Journal
Related from the Journal
Three articles on the study of theology.
AI-generated imageTextual criticismHow do we know what the New Testament originally said?
Thousands of papyrus and parchment fragments, compared line by line, let scholars trace the text back towards its earliest form. Here is how that work is done.Numa Verse Editorial · October 2026 · 7 min read
AI-generated imageChristologyWhat did the early Church confess about who Christ is?
The early councils set out what the Church held about Christ, and scribes copied their creeds by hand into codices. Many churches still recite those words today.Numa Verse Editorial · October 2026 · 8 min read
AI-generated imageBook of EnochWhat is the Book of Enoch, and why is it not in most Bibles?
Quoted in the Letter of Jude and preserved in full only in Ge’ez, the ancient language of Ethiopia, it remains in the Ethiopian Orthodox canon and outside most others.Numa Verse Editorial · October 2026 · 6 min read
There is a topic waiting for you.
Register your interest now and the full application reaches you on 1 February 2027.