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Strong Reformed formulation represented in v57 — Christ is the Church’s sole head; Petrine language does not establish papal headship

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INTERPRETIVE_CLAIMINT_MAT_16_REFORMED_FORMULATION

Evidence state: documented reception only

Statement layerBerean synthesis
ConfidenceDocumented
Curation stateCurated Human Reviewed
Claim

Calvin reads the rock/foundation in relation to the confession and faith of Christ shared by the faithful, while the Westminster tradition explicitly identifies Christ as the Church’s only head and assigns “keys” authority to church officers rather than a universal pope. v57 records this as a serious Reformed formulation, not as a default Berean conclusion.

Interpretive Evidence Audit

Documented Reception Only · Curated Pass As Reception History

Inference depth: Moderate · Original-meaning weight: No Automatic Original Meaning Weight

Publish with the stated classification and boundaries. Reception records remain separate from original-meaning evidence, and later doctrinal arrows remain visible rather than being folded into Matthew 16.

Open complete evidence audit

Quality-gate boundary: This audit measures evidentiary support and inferential distance. It does not make the Codex infallible or convert scholar/tradition authority into evidence.
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Reception History Only

Premises mapped: 2 · Development threads: 2

Curated chronology: v57 curated corpus · Historical Origin Unknown

This profile distinguishes the current Archive evidence chain from historical origin. The earliest loaded witness is not a claim that the idea originated there.

Open complete dependency profile

Chronology boundary: “Earliest in the curated Codex corpus” is not a claim of historical origin. Missing earlier records cannot be treated as evidence that a premise did not exist.

Supporting evidence

Source Id: SRC_CCEL_CALVIN_MAT16

Role: primary Reformation commentary

Source Id: SRC_OPC_WCF_25_30

Role: Reformed confessional formulation

Counterevidence / challenges

Source Id: SRC_VATICAN_I_PASTOR_AETERNUS

Note: Catholic counter-formulation

What this does not establish

That Peter is narratively irrelevant.
That every Protestant tradition agrees on church polity or Petrine interpretation.
Release Introduced
v57
Passage Id
PASSAGE_MAT_16_13_20
Evidence Classification
documented reception only
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC