The Structure of Religious Discourse: A Theory of Over-Θ+ and Over-Θ− by Means of STT-CR

This paper redefines religious discourse not in terms of doctrinal content, but in terms of where constitutive authority is located within a discourse. Using Sequential Time Theory–Critical Review (STT-CR), it distinguishes L2 (operational ground), L1 (theoretical description), and L3 (metaphysical superaddition), and defines religious discourse as a discourse form that grants Over-Θ constitutive authority over L1/L2. On that basis, the paper reconstructs orthodoxy and heresy as Over-Θ+ / Over-Θ−, explains the structural undecidability of religious conflict, and analyzes pseudo-verification within religious discourse through examples involving mercy, prayer, and healing. The paper argues that STT-CR does not function as a universal rhetoric capable of compelling religious agents from outside, but as an auditing methodology that makes visible where constitutive authority has shifted, where empirical admissibility has been replaced by Over-Θ, and where scientific, metaphysical, and religious discourse have been conflated.