Method
Editorial standards & source discipline
This project’s value depends entirely on how it treats evidence. These are the rules every page is held to.
- 1Primary sources are preferred over commentary.
- 2Quotations are checked in context, not lifted from anthologies.
- 3Translations are always identified as translations.
- 4Conciliar definitions are distinguished from speeches merely recorded in the acts.
- 5Historical titles do not by themselves prove a theological conclusion.
- 6Modern accusations require complete documentation.
- 7Disputed interpretations are labelled as disputed.
- 8Silence or absence of evidence is never presented as proof.
- 9Articles here do not claim synodal authority.
- 10Conclusions are kept no stronger than the evidence allows.
Review of the canon corpus
The reading edition contains 855 numbered Greek and English pairs. The English is a new translation. Publication of a pair does not certify its transcription or translation.
Each canon displays its recorded review status. An unverified transcription awaits comparison with the controlling printed source, the Athens 1886 Pedalion. A first check requires the exact printed page and a collation record. Independent verification requires a second recorded check. English remains a draft until a separate language and ecclesiastical review is recorded.
Source-page links are supplied only when the page has actually been checked. Until then the reader links to the complete source scan and states that the page reference remains pending. Counts and automated completeness checks establish that records exist; they do not establish that every word is correct.
How sources are marked
Every quotation carries a category. Categories are shown as labels, never by colour alone.
How certainty is marked
Historical and theological claims carry a confidence label. Labels describe the evidence; they do not substitute for it.
On quotations we cannot yet verify
Where a quotation is important but has not yet been checked against a cited edition, the page shows a plain placeholder, “Verified quotation to be inserted after source review”, rather than a text we cannot stand behind. We do not invent quotations, consensus, canon numbers, or historical certainty, and we do not silently supply our own translations in place of a source.