The controlling edition is DDF: Faith, Science, and the Logic of One Reality, with forty-three chapters and six reference appendices. Follow these chapter routes rather than treating the historical claim cards as the current wording of every judgment:
- Chapters 1--4: one reality, kinds of warrant, Triune confession, the personal Logos, creation, providence, and real created causes.
- Chapters 5--12: mathematics, matter, living organization, evolution, mind, AI, language, and culture, with each field's own evidential limits.
- Chapters 13--17: the whole person, dignity before achievement, creaturely goods, formed agency, shared history, institutions, and corruption. Institutional continuity differs from personal identity.
- Chapters 18--21: Israel, covenant, law, power, prophetic judgment, wisdom, prayer, and the historical identification of Jesus.
- Chapters 22--25: incarnation and Pascha, grace before mature performance, accountable teaching and office, baptism, and Eucharist. Christ gives the Church; local design serves its received life.
- Chapters 26--29: suffering, unequal encounter, households, sexuality, children, education, and the person's own reception of care.
- Chapters 30--35: beauty and play, work and debt, the poor, public authority, peoples and displacement, homes, cities, earth, food, and animal life. A functioning institution must deliver the good it owes.
- Chapters 36--37: digital responsibility, correction and appeal, illness, qualified care, consent, dying, and grief.
- Chapters 38--41: the same person's resurrection, truthful judgment, real loss, effective redress, disputed final-destiny judgments, and fulfilled life open to service and growth. Read Section 39's confidence and confessional distinctions with this route.
- Chapters 42--43 and Appendices A--F: whole-account comparison, revisable inquiry, claims and their dependencies, canonical and early sources, working forms, lexicon, and references. Appendix B preserves historical identifiers while the current chapter arguments govern their meaning.
Where a local team wants to make a Systems Theology claim DDF does not cover, it must use the DDF coverage-request process. A prudential local decision may still be made within lawful ecclesial authority, but it must not be presented as a new canonical DDF conclusion.
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