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A small number of thorough, sourced studies rather than many shallow ones. Each keeps evidence distinct from interpretation and links its claims to the primary sources.
- Research article · 2026Editorial interpretation
The narrow way: confession, the Cross, and the cost of the faith
Doctrine says what the confessor should do; this study asks why a soul would bear it, and how to bear it without pride. Confession as cross bearing, the world's hatred as the mark not the exception, and the resurrection that answers the Cross.
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The Church cannot fail: indefectibility, the Spirit, and the two errors it forbids
Christ promised the gates of hell would not prevail. This study locates the promise in the whole Body guarded by the Spirit, grounding the wall as faith and forbidding both the ecumenist compromise and the schismatic rival church.
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Love and truth: the charity of the confessor
The gravest objection to walling off is that it is unloving. This study answers it from Scripture and the Fathers, and names the confessor's own besetting danger: keeping the discernment of Ephesus while losing its first love.
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Obedience and its limits: submission, conscience and the faith
Why obedience is owed, what it is owed to, and the single point where it ceases: the bishop as icon, the deposit as its measure, and the confessor who disobeys in order to obey.
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Unity in truth: the ecclesiology beneath the wall
Why communion presupposes shared faith: the Creed's one Church, the Eucharist as confession, the bishop as guardian of a deposit he did not author, and the wall as the body's own defence.
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The diachronic agreement: how the confessors acted before the councils spoke
Eight episodes across sixteen centuries, Athanasius to Athos 1970, one constant pattern: cessation of communion before conciliar verdicts, without rival altars, vindicated after the fact.
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Defilement without invalidity: the theology of μολυσμός
What 'defilement' from communion with uncondemned heretics means, and does not mean: real Mysteries received unto judgment, deposition as a constitutive act, and walling off as the canonical remedy.
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Further studies are in preparation on the same standard; drafts are not published until their sources are in place.