· The map stretches time where the story is dense.· Lanes are reading aids, not a taxonomy of the Church.· ↔ bands bridge two lanes.· Zoom past 160% to meet the people; hover a tradition to see who formed whom.· The bottom stream, Non-Nicene Traditions, holds movements whose own confessions diverge from the Nicene Creed and its bounded proximity — researched and explained, never hidden.· ✦ founder-prophet authority, ground on record · ✧ founder-prophet check a future assessment must run (and may well clear) — authority resting on a named individual rather than a broader communal tradition.· ≈ wet ink: still-forming currents that overlay other movements rather than sitting beside them — the engraving runs out at the chart's right edge, on purpose.
ERAS
Welcome to the whole landscape
Two thousand years of Christians have known Jesus from inside very different traditions.
Several of those traditions are open for conversation today — they glow at full color.
Everything else is real history, honestly labeled: chosen-but-not-built, deferred with
reasons, not yet assessed, or excluded on stated grounds you can read in full. Nothing here
is hover-dead. Absence is never a judgment of unimportance.
The World Atlas — Research Table
Every candidate Christian tradition across two thousand years of Christian history — built, chosen, deferred, excluded-with-reasons, and not-yet-surveyed — with the plain explanation a participant would read for each. Eras 1–2 reproduce the Phase One Step 0 record (Phase One deliberately spans both, creed to council); Eras 3–10 carry signals, not verdicts. Atlas IDs (I.1, II.5…) are stable record keys — the Roman numeral is the survey part, not the era number. Every entry carries its lane under the seven-lane architecture (lanes are reading aids, not a taxonomy). The eighth lane, Non-Nicene Traditions, holds movements whose own confessions diverge from the Nicene Creed and its bounded proximity — researched and explained, never hidden. Read live from the same census the Story and Wall Chart views use.