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Work #1480 · Mid-career

The Unreasonableness of Separation

Edward Stillingfleet
1681 · English
Sermon-treatise (printed) · Latitudinarian Anglicanism / Restoration church-controversy

Stillingfleet's 1681 sermon-treatise against Dissenting separation from the Church of England

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Attribute The Unreasonableness of Separation (Mid-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

The Unreasonableness of Separation

1681 — post-1662 Act of Uniformity, anti-Dissenter context.

Space

The Unreasonableness of Separation

London — Restoration church-political setting.

Matter

The Unreasonableness of Separation

Single sermon-derived treatise.

Observer

The Unreasonableness of Separation

Stillingfleet as Latitudinarian-Anglican controversialist against Dissent.

Energy

The Unreasonableness of Separation

Controversial-polemical energies of post-1662 church politics.

Information

The Unreasonableness of Separation

Single volume with sermon plus extensive ecclesiological-historical apparatus.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

The Unreasonableness of Separation

Stillingfleet's most controversial church-political intervention; prompted multiple Nonconformist replies.