Structural Reconstruction of Ontology, Normativity, and History: John 1 and Philippians 2
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: No pairwise integration of ontology (O), normativity (N), and history (H) achieves non-reductive unification without structural loss. Paper 1 of this series derives, under formal constraints, a minimal integration profile (C1–C6) specifying the conditions under which such unification is possible. The present paper tests whether this profile is textually instantiated in primary sources associated with the relevant event. The analysis proceeds under a generation constraint: the criteria are not applied to the texts but reconstructed from them where their internal logic requires. Two compositionally independent passages — John 1:1–18 and Philippians 2:6–11 — are examined as discursive objects exhibiting formally distinct strategies of articulation. The results converge: both passages independently generate the same structural configuration across O, H, and N, one through sequential expansion and the other through compressed trajectory. The outcome is a structural result: the integration profile is not imposed on these texts but reconstructed from them. No theological, historical, or metaphysical claim is established beyond this correspondence.
Author: Gomez, Jose
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7155079703
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