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.
Origines Sacrae
Stillingfleet's 1662 'Origines Sacrae' — Restoration-Anglican rational defence of Christian truth against deist and atheist challenge
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Origines Sacrae (Early-career) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| 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 | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Limited |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| 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
Origines Sacrae
1662 publication. Stillingfleet was 27 and had been ordained in 1661; his career was just beginning.
Space
Origines Sacrae
London — Stillingfleet was at this time rector of Sutton in Bedfordshire but moving in London ecclesiastical-intellectual circles (Tillotson, Stilling fleet, and Patrick formed the 'Latitudinarian' triumvirate of post-Restoration Anglican apologetics).
Matter
Origines Sacrae
Single large apologetic treatise (~600 pages in original folio). Form is three-book historical-philosophical apologetics: each book combines philological-historical scholarship with philosophical argument.
Observer
Origines Sacrae
Young Stillingfleet defending Christian revelation rationally. The observer is the rising apologist who would become Dean of St Paul's (1678) and Bishop of Worcester (1689).
Energy
Origines Sacrae
Sustained apologetic energies of the post-Civil-War return-to-orthodoxy. The Restoration's distinctive intellectual mood — recoil from 1640s-50s sectarianism, search for a moderate-rational Anglican via media — pervades the book.
Information
Origines Sacrae
Three-book treatise with extensive scholarly apparatus. The book's scholarly density (Stillingfleet's command of Hebrew, Greek, and the Patristic sources) was distinctive among contemporary apologetics.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Stillingfleet's career-launching apologetic; standard Restoration-Anglican reference text for a century. Read continuously by subsequent Anglican apologists (Tillotson, Locke, Bentley, Butler); the rational-historical apologetic methodology shaped subsequent Anglican-philosophical-theological work and made Stillingfleet's later 1696 'Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity' (which engaged Locke) a continuation of this earlier methodology.