Persona Classification Layer
Compare Personas
Pick two or more historical figures to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension evidence, and shared school influences side by side.
John Wesley
Christian perfection through prevenient grace, free will, and the means of grace — the world is my parish
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.
| Attribute | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Both |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | implicit |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | implicit |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | implicit |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | Conversionist |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | implicit |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
John Wesley
"Both" — divine eternity and created salvation-historical time. Non-deterministic: prevenient grace enables genuinely free response.
Space
John Wesley
"Both." "The world is my parish" — Wesley's missionary cosmopolitanism.
Matter
John Wesley
Substantival, conserved. The Methodist sacramental practice (Eucharist as a converting ordinance) takes material elements seriously.
Observer
John Wesley
Single embodied person, plural among others. Active in cooperation with grace (synergism against monergism). Personal metaphysical agency: the Trinitarian God of Anglican-Methodist confession. Theological method: Conversionist — the new birth as central.
Energy
John Wesley
Conventional 18th-century.
Information
John Wesley
Conserved at both scales.
Internal Tensions
Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.
Wesley's Arminian theology was sharply contested by his Calvinist contemporaries (Whitefield, the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion). The doctrine of Christian perfection in particular has been the most-controversial aspect: Reformed critics read it as a denial of remaining sin in the believer; Methodist defenders insist it is a doctrine of perfection in love, not of sinless perfection, attainable in this life. The institutional separation of American Methodism from the Church of England in 1784 happened during Wesley's lifetime; British Methodism formally separated only after his death.