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.
How to Be Born Again
Graham's 1977 evangelistic-pastoral statement — the new-birth doctrine systematically expounded
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | How to Be Born Again (Mid) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| 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 | Active |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| 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 | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
How to Be Born Again
The 1977 late-1970s American evangelical moment.
Space
How to Be Born Again
The American evangelical Protestant setting; the popular-religious reading audience.
Matter
How to Be Born Again
The embodied potential-convert whose new-birth experience the book addresses.
Observer
How to Be Born Again
Graham as evangelistic-pastoral writer; the reader as proper addressee.
Energy
How to Be Born Again
The religious-spiritual energies of conversion the book commends.
Information
How to Be Born Again
The systematic-evangelistic content of the new-birth doctrine.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
How to Be Born Again has been a major popular-evangelical text; mainline-Protestant and Catholic readers have variously assessed its theological-pastoral approach.