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Brackets confessional stakes. Treats canon-formation as one instance of a general pattern: reference sets of any kind — legal codes, scientific results, canons — stabilize through iterated citation, use, and downstream dependency, not through a single certifying act. The question is not whether this describes revelation correctly but whether it describes formation correctly, which is checkable independently of theology.

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Reception and historiography describe the same mechanism from different vantage points — reception names it inside a theological frame, as providential uptake; historiography names it as a domain-general pattern, uptake as the only test any epistemic community actually has. Narrow edge to reception on this thread specifically: the thread's stakes are which framing functions as a norm for belief, and a norm-neutral description doesn't settle that by itself. It only explains why norm-committed observers keep independently reaching for process language — received, acknowledged, discovered.

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