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.
Notes Upon the New Testament
Wesley's 1755 Methodist NT commentary — companion to Standard Sermons
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Notes Upon the New Testament (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
Notes Upon the New Testament
1755 publication; mid-Wesley career, after the 1738 Aldersgate conversion-experience and during the consolidation of the Methodist societies.
Space
Notes Upon the New Testament
Bristol-Methodist publishing setting; transnational Anglo-American Methodist circuit-network readership.
Matter
Notes Upon the New Testament
The New Testament books; Bengel's philological observations; the doctrines of grace, justification, regeneration, sanctification, and perfection.
Observer
Notes Upon the New Testament
Mid-Wesley as Methodist-society-founder, evangelist, and pastoral theologian working with Bengel's philological materials.
Energy
Notes Upon the New Testament
Practical-pastoral, evangelical-doctrinal, philological-derivative-but-popularly-accessible energies.
Information
Notes Upon the New Testament
Verse-by-verse explanatory commentary; combines philological observation, theological clarification, and pastoral application; English-vernacular for non-specialist Methodist readers.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Notes Upon the New Testament has remained the Methodist constitutional exegetical-doctrinal standard alongside the Standard Sermons. Methodist-doctrinal disputes (Wesleyan-Arminian vs. Calvinist-Whitefieldian; later debates over Christian perfection, sanctification, holiness-movement) have all turned in part on how to read the Notes.