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.
How sources are marked
Every quotation carries a category. Categories are shown as labels, never by colour alone.
Holy ScriptureEcumenical CouncilLocal CouncilSacred CanonChurch FatherHagiographicalLater TheologianModern ClergyAcademic HistorianEditorial Commentary
How certainty is marked
Historical and theological claims carry a confidence label. Labels describe the evidence; they do not substitute for it.
DocumentedStrongly supportedDisputedUnverifiedEditorial interpretation
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.