Searching the Library

Press Search in the top navigation, from any page, to search the Library by keyword. Type at least two characters. You will get up to twenty results, each linking straight to the relevant heading inside a document.

Pick a language, or you are searching less than you think

This is the one thing worth knowing before anything else.

• With a language selected, either from the dropdown or by typing its name in your query, search covers everything indexed for that language.
• With “All languages” and no language named, search falls back to a cross-language summary that contains only Critical and High risk entries. Medium and Low risk entries are not in it.

So if you search a term and get nothing, the usual cause is not that the term is missing. It is that you are on the cross-language summary and the term is Medium or Low risk. Pick the language and search again.

If you name a language in the query and also choose one from the dropdown, the dropdown wins.

What is covered

Search indexes four document types:

• Doctrine Analysis
• Core Glossary
• Comparative Theology
• Regional Analysis, specifically its regional profiles

Several other documents are deliberately not searchable: Executive Summary, Linguistic Gap Analysis, Cross-Reference Analysis, Biblical Theme Map, Semantic Analysis, and the AI Translation Requirements. Those are read start to finish rather than dipped into, and they have no clean per-entry headings to link to. Reach them from the language’s own page in the Library instead.

Writing a good query

Mentioning the language in the query itself works, and is often quickest:

• remnant burmese
• atonement hindi

You can also ask in plain words. A few intent words nudge results toward terms known to collide with another tradition or between denominations:

• what glossary terms conflict for burmese
• confusing terms in spanish

Words like conflict, clash, contradict, and confusing raise those entries in the ranking. They do not filter anything out, so an ordinary keyword match can still outrank them.

Searching a language name on its own, with no other words, returns that language’s highest-risk entries, so it is a reasonable way to see where the pressure is.

How results are ordered

A result scores higher when your words appear in the entry’s name than in its body text, and higher again on a whole-word match than a partial one. Where two results score the same, the higher risk tier comes first, so Critical outranks High, then Medium, then Low. See what the risk tiers mean.

Related

• Compare across languages, for reading one doctrine across several languages at once
• How a language package is built, for where this content comes from