Work Classification Layer
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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.
Deep Is the Hunger
Thurman's 1951 collection of devotional meditations
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Deep Is the Hunger (Mid) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Reversible |
| 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
Deep Is the Hunger
1951 publication; mid-Thurman literary corpus; high mid-century African-American religious-intellectual moment.
Space
Deep Is the Hunger
San Francisco / Boston composition; published New York; subsequently read across African-American, white-mainline, and broader-ecumenical Christian communities, and increasingly outside Christian-confessional boundaries.
Matter
Deep Is the Hunger
Solitude, communion, the inner search, suffering, justice as spiritual imperative; the integration of personal-spiritual depth with public-political commitment.
Observer
Deep Is the Hunger
Mid-Thurman as African-American mystical-devotional writer and Boston University Marsh Chapel Dean preparing.
Energy
Deep Is the Hunger
Lyrical-contemplative, mystical-devotional, integrative-prophetic energies.
Information
Deep Is the Hunger
Collection of short devotional meditations; lyrical prose-style; combines mystical-contemplative reflection with social-justice-aware spirituality.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Deep Is the Hunger sits at the foundation of African-American mystical-devotional writing in the line of Thurman's broader corpus. The book's continuing readership across racial, denominational, and even religious-confessional boundaries reflects Thurman's distinctive achievement of integrating mystical depth, prophetic social commitment, and lyrical-literary form.