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.
Revelations of Divine Love
All shall be well — Jesus as mother, sin as nothing of being, and the universe held in the divine love that is the hazelnut
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Revelations of Divine Love |
|---|---|
| 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 | Immediate |
| 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 | 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
Revelations of Divine Love
Time is the medium of providence. The "great deed" God will perform at the last day is real future fact, even where its content is hidden. All shall be well — past, present, future.
Space
Revelations of Divine Love
The hazelnut held in the palm is the universe — small, contained, sustained. Standard medieval Christian cosmology.
Matter
Revelations of Divine Love
Created good and sustained by divine love. Julian's celebration of embodied existence is one of the most affirmative in any medieval mystical text.
Observer
Revelations of Divine Love
Julian as observer is embodied, conscious of being one among many ("alle myne even-Christians"), plural in her solidarity with all the faithful. Agency is both — divine grace and human cooperation. Moral authority is scripture, mediated by Julian's lived showings.
Energy
Revelations of Divine Love
Divine love is the central energetic principle, sustaining all creation continuously.
Information
Revelations of Divine Love
God's knowledge is total and personal; the inscribed record of every life is in divine love. Personal information is conserved across death; the resurrection is bodily.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Julian's confident "all shall be well" sits in tension with the Church's teaching on damnation, which she acknowledges (ch. 32–33) but never reconciles. Her reading of sin as having no positive being is in continuity with Augustine's privation theory but expressed with extraordinary tenderness. Modern readers have sometimes pulled Julian toward universalism in ways the text does not unambiguously support.