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.
Against Praxeas
There are three Persons in one Substance — the formula "tres personae, una substantia" enters Christian theology
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Against Praxeas (Late (composed in Tertullian's Montanist period but with orthodox Trinitarian content)) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Non-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| 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 | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Against Praxeas
Eternal trinitarian processions (the Father generates the Son, the Spirit proceeds) within the eternal divine life; temporal-economic missions (Incarnation, Pentecost) in created history.
Space
Against Praxeas
God as non-spatial; the divine missions extending the trinitarian life into space through the Incarnation.
Matter
Against Praxeas
The Incarnation as the entry of the Son into materiality — a central anti-Patripassian argument, since the Father, who has no body, cannot suffer except through the Son's assumed nature.
Observer
Against Praxeas
The three divine Persons as the supreme model of personal distinction-in-unity; the human knower whose theological vocabulary must respect both the unity and the distinction.
Energy
Against Praxeas
The single divine energy expressed in the trinitarian missions; the economy of salvation as the trinitarian work made visible.
Information
Against Praxeas
The scriptural evidence (the trinitarian formulae, the baptismal formula, the Johannine prologue, Pauline trinitarian passages) as the discrete content of the doctrine.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Against Praxeas was composed during Tertullian's Montanist period, but its theology is fully Catholic-orthodox — a fact that has puzzled commentators since Augustine. The work's influence has not been universally welcomed: Eastern theologians sometimes object that the Latin "una substantia" can suggest a univocal divine being underlying the persons (the worry that produced the filioque controversy); Modalists and Unitarians throughout the centuries have continued to argue that the trinitarian distinctions are over-drawn. The work's vocabulary, however, has been universally adopted.