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.
We Drink from Our Own Wells
Gutiérrez's 1983 spirituality of liberation — proper-spiritual-religious foundation of liberation-theological work
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | We Drink from Our Own Wells (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 | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| 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
We Drink from Our Own Wells
The 1983 mid-Gutiérrez moment.
Space
We Drink from Our Own Wells
The Latin American Catholic setting.
Matter
We Drink from Our Own Wells
The embodied poor Latin American Catholic community.
Observer
We Drink from Our Own Wells
Gutiérrez as proper-liberation-spirituality theorist.
Energy
We Drink from Our Own Wells
The spiritual-religious-political energies.
Information
We Drink from Our Own Wells
The systematic spirituality-of-liberation content.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
We Drink from Our Own Wells has been universally well-received within liberation-theological circles as proper-spiritual companion to A Theology of Liberation.