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.
Strength to Love
King's major book of theological-pastoral preaching — Christian love as the principle of non-violent social transformation
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Strength to Love (Mid (the major collection of sermons)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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
Strength to Love
The temporal life of Christian discipleship and social struggle — the long process of personal and social transformation.
Space
Strength to Love
The local space of the church congregation and the broader space of national-political struggle.
Matter
Strength to Love
Embodied Christian-political life — bodies subject to suffering, transformed by grace.
Observer
Strength to Love
The Christian disciple — embodied, plural, both active in love and passive in receiving grace. Personal-providential God as framework.
Energy
Strength to Love
The transformative energy of Christian love — the strength to love one's enemies.
Information
Strength to Love
The biblical-theological tradition preserved through the sermon as the primary form of communicating Christian truth.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The sermons' integration of personalist theology with prophetic social demand has been criticised from both sides — by black-radical thinkers as too integrationist, by conservative evangelicals as too political. The relation between Strength to Love's pastoral-individual address and the structural-political analysis of King's later work (Where Do We Go from Here) is a continuing scholarly theme.