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.
On Christian Doctrine
The reading and preaching of Scripture — Augustine's comprehensive treatise on Christian biblical interpretation and rhetorical communication
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | On Christian Doctrine (Mid-late (composed across three decades)) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| 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 | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| 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
On Christian Doctrine
The temporal life of Christian biblical interpretation across centuries; the eternal realities to which signs point.
Space
On Christian Doctrine
The space of the Christian community as the proper site of biblical interpretation and preaching.
Matter
On Christian Doctrine
The embodied texts of Scripture; the embodied preacher communicating to the embodied community.
Observer
On Christian Doctrine
The interpreting-preaching Christian — embodied, plural, charitably oriented. Personal-providential God as the ultimate referent.
Energy
On Christian Doctrine
The rhetorical-communicative energies of preaching; the love-energy that orients interpretation.
Information
On Christian Doctrine
Scripture as the preserved divine information; the interpretive tradition that mediates its understanding.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Augustine's rule of charity has been continuously debated — does it license allegorical reading that exceeds the literal sense? does it constrain reading too narrowly? The relation between Augustine's patristic hermeneutics and modern critical biblical scholarship has been the central twentieth-century interpretive question. The treatise's integration of classical rhetorical theory with Christian preaching has shaped subsequent homiletics across confessional traditions.