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.
Lectures on Galatians
Luther's 1531/1535 great commentary on Galatians
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Lectures on Galatians (Mature) |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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
Lectures on Galatians
Lectures 1531, published 1535; high-mature Luther, fifteen years after the 1517 Theses and seven years before his death (1546).
Space
Lectures on Galatians
University of Wittenberg lecture-hall; published Wittenberg; transnational Lutheran-and-broader-Protestant Latin-republic-of-letters readership.
Matter
Lectures on Galatians
Paul's Letter to the Galatians, the doctrine of justification by faith, the law-gospel distinction, the imputed righteousness of Christ, the simul iustus et peccator, the freedom of the Christian.
Observer
Lectures on Galatians
Mature Luther as Reformer-theologian, having absorbed the early-Reformation polemical-experience and now articulating the Lutheran position positively.
Energy
Lectures on Galatians
Polemical-dogmatic, pastorally-passionate, exegetical-theological energies.
Information
Lectures on Galatians
Verse-by-verse Latin commentary; combines exegesis, theological exposition, pastoral application, and polemical engagement with rival positions; based on student-transcript editing under Luther's authority.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Lectures on Galatians has remained a foundational Lutheran systematic-theological text. The twentieth-century 'New Perspective on Paul' (E. P. Sanders, James Dunn, N. T. Wright) raised significant questions about whether Luther's reading of Paul-on-justification is exegetically sustainable — proposing that Paul's polemic was directed not against Pelagian works-righteousness but against ethnic Jewish-particularist boundary-markers. Lutheran systematic-theologians (Stephen Westerholm, Oswald Bayer, Mark Seifrid) have offered substantial defences of Luther's reading in this debate; the controversy remains live.