Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Cur Deus Homo
Sin is an infinite offence against God's honour requiring infinite satisfaction — which only the God-man can offer
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Cur Deus Homo (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Both |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Total |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| 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 | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Cur Deus Homo
The Incarnation is a real temporal event in real history. Standard medieval Christian framework.
Space
Cur Deus Homo
Standard background.
Matter
Cur Deus Homo
Real bodily existence is the medium of the incarnation and the cross.
Observer
Cur Deus Homo
The Anselmian observer is the rational believer reaching theological understanding through demonstration ("faith seeking understanding"). Active, plural, embodied; metaphysical agency unambiguously personal.
Energy
Cur Deus Homo
Standard medieval doctrine of divine sustenance.
Information
Cur Deus Homo
Christ's atoning work is a real historical-cosmic event whose informational consequences are eternal. Personal information conserved through resurrection.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Anselm's feudal-honour framework — modelled on the lord-vassal relations of his society — has been criticised as time-bound. The substitution-language has been criticised by Christus-Victor advocates (Aulén, 1931) as missing the cosmic-conflict dimensions of patristic atonement theology. Modern Reformed and evangelical defenders (Stott, Jeffery-Ovey-Sach) have developed sophisticated responses.