This monograph investigates the interplay of linguistics, theology, and cognitive science by analyzing the evolving theolinguistic matrices within religious and popular discourse. Focusing on English, German, and Ukrainian, it traces the diachronic interpretation of key religious concepts-righteousness, faith, and repentance-within Indo-European and Nostratic frameworks. Through comparative-historical methods and cognitive-matrix analysis, the authors reveal how these archetypal matrices shape theological communication across cultures. The work offers deep insights into the construction of religious meaning, engaging scholars in linguistics, theology, and cultural history to explore the relationship between language, faith, and identity.

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Dr Olesya Cherkhava is a Professor in the Department of Germanic and Romance Languages at Kyiv National Linguistic University (Ukraine) and an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland). Her research interests include cognitive comparative and macrocomparative linguistics and theolinguistics.Dr Yan Kapranov is an Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland), a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oulu (Finland), and a professor at Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University (Ukraine). He leads the UEHS Academic and Research Center for Multilingualism in Corpus Translation and Interpreting Studies. His research interests are related to cognitive comparative and macrocomparative linguistics, translation studies, and corpus linguistics.Prof. Dr. Maksym W. Sitnicki is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University (United States of America). He is the Head of the Management of Innovation and Investment Activities Department at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine). He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Business at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland). His research interests are related to the subject of strategic management, development of research universities, marketing, leadership, health care management, intellectual property management and management of development in the information society.Dr Bozena Iwanowska is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, as the Director of the UEHS Academic Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research, she integrates her linguistic expertise with historical research, focusing mainly on the impact of tragic historical events on language evolution and usage.