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.
Ambigua
Cosmic liturgy in seventy-one difficulties — every created thing moves from God, through Christ, back to God in theosis
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Ambigua |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| 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 | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Tradition |
| 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
Ambigua
Both: created time is real and linear, but the logoi are eternal in God. The cosmic drama is a movement from origin (arche) through kinesis to telos (rest in God). Non-deterministic: the logoi establish natural ends, but free will determines whether creatures reach them.
Space
Ambigua
Finite, substantival. The five cosmic divisions (created/uncreated, etc.) describe the spatial-ontological structure of reality. All are unified in Christ as cosmic mediator.
Matter
Ambigua
Emergent from the logoi. The material creation is good, destined for transfiguration, not annihilation. The Incarnation sanctifies matter as the medium of God's self-revelation.
Observer
Ambigua
The human person as microcosm and mediator — containing within itself all five cosmic divisions and called to unite them. Both embodied and transcendent. Active: theosis requires synergy of divine grace and human willing. Knowledge is mediated through ascetical-contemplative stages.
Energy
Ambigua
The divine energies (energeiai) are the medium through which God communicates himself to creatures without his essence being diminished. Infinite at the divine level.
Information
Ambigua
The logoi are the eternal informational principles of all things, held in the Logos. They constitute the intelligible structure of creation. Conserved eternally in God; personal information is conserved through the soul's immortality and theosis.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Ambigua's relationship to Origen is the central tension: Maximus uses Origenist conceptual material (the cosmic drama, the logoi, the return of all things) while formally rejecting Origen's most distinctive doctrines (pre-existence of souls, apokatastasis as automatic restoration). Whether this rejection is consistent with the Origenist structure he retains is debated. The doctrine of the logoi risks collapsing divine freedom into a necessity of nature if the logoi are eternal and necessary. Maximus insists on God's freedom, but the tension between eternal logoi and free creation persists.