Purpose

This page records the major publication and research programs behind Confessional Bibliology. It distinguishes an approved architecture from completed public work and gives each project a stated scope, present status, next action, and permanent destination.

Roadmap date: July 20, 2026. Statuses describe the project record on that date and should be revised when a milestone is actually completed.

Status Key

• Published: the defined public deliverable is available.
• In production: the scope and architecture are approved and content is being prepared.
• Pilot: a limited implementation is testing the method before full production.
• Research: sources and claims are being assembled; conclusions are not yet ready for publication.
• Planned: the destination is approved, but substantive production has not begun.
• Continuing: a permanent program without a single completion date.

Active Projects

Research-Library Rebuild

• Status: In production
• Owner: Confessional Bibliology editorial program
• Scope: Reclassify the archive beneath Start Here, Articles and Series, Textual Issues, Media, and the Research Center while preserving substantive articles and existing URLs wherever possible.
• Completed milestone: Managed pages, menus, content types, taxonomies, and the first page-content reconciliation have been created.
• Next action: Finish the remaining page templates, connect archive records to controlled taxonomies, and verify every public route.
• Dependencies: WordPress content inventory, redirects, stable page keys, and continuing editorial review.
• Permanent destination: Research Center

Foundations of Confessional Bibliology

• Status: In production
• Owner: Confessional Bible Society course program
• Scope: A twelve-module, forty-eight-hour course moving from revelation and inspiration through canon, preservation, authentic text, textual study, and translation.
• Completed milestone: The master blueprint and full production packages for Modules 1–8 are present in the project record.
• Next action: Complete Modules 9–12, perform course-wide theological and rights review, and test the student and instructor packages.
• Target: January 1, 2027, subject to the completion gates stated in the blueprint.
• Dependencies: Verified source reader, audio production, assessments, accessibility review, and named human review.
• Permanent destination: Complete Course

Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 1

• Status: In production
• Owner: Confessional Bibliology series program
• Scope: A forty-eight-article exposition of the doctrine of Holy Scripture arranged by the architecture of Westminster Confession of Faith, chapter 1.
• Completed milestone: The expansion package and series structure are present in the master corpus.
• Next action: Reconcile publication status article by article and connect every item to its confessional paragraph and subject taxonomy.
• Dependencies: Archive reconciliation and final editorial review.
• Permanent destination: Westminster Confession, Chapter 1

Doctrine of Providential Preservation

• Status: In production
• Owner: Confessional Bibliology series program
• Scope: A sixty-article treatment of God’s preservation of Scripture, the meaning of “kept pure in all ages,” apographs, variants, editions, ecclesiastical reception, and ministerial textual judgment.
• Completed milestone: The sixty-article master architecture is approved.
• Next action: Match completed articles to the architecture, identify genuine gaps, and publish the series in controlled numerical order.
• Dependencies: Textual-issue dossiers, confessional-source records, and consistent terminology.
• Permanent destination: Doctrine of Providential Preservation

Doctrine of Inspiration

• Status: In production
• Owner: Confessional Bibliology series program
• Scope: A sixty-four-article series on revelation, inscripturation, verbal and plenary inspiration, infallibility, inerrancy, authority, canon, preservation, illumination, and translation.
• Completed milestone: The governing charter, editorial method, and article architecture are approved.
• Next action: Reconcile existing inspiration material with the sixty-four article map and prepare the first complete publication block.
• Dependencies: Course Modules 1–5, confessional sources, and Scripture studies.
• Permanent destination: Doctrine of Inspiration

Textual-Issue Dossiers

• Status: Continuing
• Owner: Confessional Bibliology textual-research program
• Scope: Standardized passage hubs containing the competing readings, translations, manuscript, versional, patristic, lectionary, printed-text, Reformation, internal, doctrinal, and confessional evidence.
• Completed milestone: The standard dossier structure and major-passage route map are established; several New Testament dossiers are complete.
• Next action: Complete the remaining New Testament dossiers and develop the Old Testament sub-hubs without overstating unavailable evidence.
• Dependencies: Source catalogue, stable bibliographies, and comparison-chart production.
• Permanent destination: Textual Issues

Confessional Bibliology Source Library and John Owen Pilot

• Status: Pilot
• Owner: Confessional Bibliology Source Library
• Scope: Produce controlled facsimile, diplomatic, normalized, modernized, translated, and annotated editions of historic Reformed works. The first full test case is John Owen’s 1659 Of the Divine Original.
• Completed milestone: The Source Library manual and Owen work warrant are approved with source-control conditions.
• Next action: Secure and record the governing exemplar, complete the image inventory and checksums, and proceed only through the verification gates actually passed.
• Target: October 31, 2026, for the Owen pilot only if all source and review conditions are met.
• Dependencies: Lawful source access, independent collation, original-language review, rights review, and public revision records.
• Permanent destination: Primary Source Catalogue

The Manuscripts on Trial

• Status: Research
• Owner: Confessional Bibliology research program
• Scope: Audit claims about the dating, provenance, reputation, and critical use of major manuscripts; test textual canons; trace citation chains; and distinguish artifacts from later claims made about them.
• Completed milestone: The research prospectus, evidentiary categories, burden-of-proof rules, dossier templates, empirical tests, serial plan, and book architecture are drafted.
• Next action: Complete the immediate pilot claim inventory and two source-controlled manuscript dossiers before documentary scripts or book chapters are treated as settled.
• Dependencies: Primary-source acquisition, precise locators, and independent review of high-stakes historical claims.
• Permanent destination: Projects and Roadmap

Continuing Programs

The Article Archive, Corrections and Revision History, Primary Source Catalogue, and Bibliographies and Study Paths are permanent programs. They are maintained rather than “finished.”

Roadmap Rules

1. An architecture is not counted as a published article.
2. A draft is not promoted merely to satisfy a target date.
3. A public status must identify the highest gate actually passed.
4. A changed scope, delay, or abandoned project remains visible in the revision record.
5. Personality-centered controversy does not determine project priority; doctrinal foundations, primary sources, and durable research tools do.

Source Record

• Doctrine of Inspiration: Series Charter, Editorial Manual, and 64-Article Architecture
• Doctrine of Providential Preservation: 60-Article Master Architecture
• Foundations of Confessional Bibliology: Master Course Blueprint and Production Standard
• The Manuscripts on Trial: Project Prospectus, version 0.1
• Confessional Bibliology Source Library Manual, version 1.0
• John Owen 1659 Pilot Work Warrant and Source-Acquisition Dossier, version 1.0