Research Articles
Long-form original work. Each piece is later mined for threads and daily posts on @Orthodox_Friar.
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When “God Is Love” Becomes a Smaller God: Marcion’s Exile of the Judge
1 John 4 is true. Using “Love” to delete the Judge is nearer Marcion than John—and the Church has met this mechanism before.
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The Luminous Religion: Christianity in Tang China and the Stone That Would Not Stay Buried
In 635 Alopen reached Chang’an; in 781 a stele recorded the gospel in China. Buried, rediscovered—and still solid history.
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The Cycle Framework: How Heresies Recur as Secular Ideologies
Manifesto article: church history as a map of recurring mechanisms—not a museum of dead debates.
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Arianism and the Hollowed Christ
Worked cycle: when the Son is less than fully God, the image of man is thinned—and modern reductions still trade on it.