Prolegomena to the Historical Logos: A Foundational Field Statement for the Discipline of Logotic Transmission

EA-LOGOS-02. This prolegomenon announces the discipline of Logotic transmission — the study of how the Word (Logos) moves across bodies, texts, media, and epochs. It redirects the century-long Quest for the Historical Jesus from the question of who spoke the Word to the question of how the Word moved. The discipline is differentiated from reception history (Gadamer), textual criticism (Lachmann/Metzger), and intertextuality (Kristeva/Genette). Four strata of analysis are established (textual, embodied, technological, apophatic) and four modes of Logotic encoding (recursive attribution, dialectical ghosting, time-locked fracture, initiatory concealment). The companion deposit EA-LOGOS-01 (The Word That Became…