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.
Martin Luther
Justification by faith alone, the bound will, scripture as the church's sole final authority
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.
| Attribute | Martin Luther |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | not engaged |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | not engaged |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Passive |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | Confessional |
| 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 | not engaged |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Martin Luther
"Both" — God's eternity and created salvation-historical time. Deterministic because the will is bound and God's sovereignty is absolute (the central doctrine of De Servo Arbitrio against Erasmus).
Space
Martin Luther
Conventional late-medieval: substantival, finite, three-dimensional, local. Luther was unmoved by Copernicus's heliocentrism and remained within the Ptolemaic cosmos.
Matter
Martin Luther
Substantival, conserved. The doctrine of consubstantiation is a precise metaphysical claim about how Christ's body is really present in, with, and under the bread of the Eucharist.
Observer
Martin Luther
Single embodied person, plural among others. Passive agency in salvation — the central polemic against Erasmus is that the human will cannot of itself turn to God. Personal metaphysical agency: the God of Scripture, definitively self-revealed in Christ.
Energy
Martin Luther
Conventional medieval-Aristotelian.
Information
Martin Luther
Conserved at both scales. The Bible is the durable Word of God; the soul persists into eternity through resurrection.
Internal Tensions
Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.
Luther's combination of radical liberation in matters of conscience with deep conservatism on political authority (the harsh "Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants" of 1525) was already noticed in his own day. His later writings on the Jews (1543) are a more troubling part of the same inheritance; modern Lutheran bodies have repudiated them.