Bibliographic record
Abstract
Born in Ottawa in 1920, of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick parentage, Eugene Fairweather grew up in Montreal, nurtured in Anglo-Catholic piety and classical education. His earliest published works were frequent columns for the Canadian Churchman (beginning in 1938), and many editorials and book reviews in the Anglican Outlook, a Christian Socialist journal published in Montreal. After graduate studies in classics at the University of Toronto, and divinity at Trinity College, where he became a tutor in 1944, and then lecturer in dogmatic theology, he left Toronto in 1947 to obtain S.T.M. and Th.D. degrees at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In 1949, he returned to Toronto as associate professor of theology and ethics at Trinity, where he was named Keble Professor of Divinity in 1964. Fairweather was well known in academic circles throughout North America. He often served as a visiting lecturer (for example, he gave the Bishop Paddock Lecture at General Seminary in 1956 and the Hale Memorial Lectures at Seabury-Western in 1963). He served as President of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, and the Canadian Theological Society; as a founder, and editor (1960-1970), of the Canadian Journal of Theology, to which he was a frequent contributor; and as a founder of its successor, the Toronto Journal of Theology. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and received honorary degrees from several universities, including his alma mater, McGill, and the University of King's College, Halifax. Internationally, he contributed to several conferences on St. Augustine and St. Anselm. Especially notable was his defense of Anselm's doctrine against the criticism of it in Bishop Aulen's very influential Christus Victor. After his retirement from Trinity College in 1987, he continued to teach for several years, first at the General Theological Seminary in New York City, and then at the Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax. His last years were spent in the ancestral home of his mother's family, in Hortonville, Nova Scotia. In marking his retirement, the Toronto Journal of Theology (of which he was now an honorary editor) devoted its Spring 1987 number to a collection of essays in his honor, together with several evaluations of his work, and a bibliography. Fairweather's liberal Anglo-Catholic orientation, which remained constant throughout his career, was clearly set out in his earliest scholarly article, Mystery of New Being, published in the Anglican Theological Review 34 (1952): 77-85. While the title recalls Paul Tillich (Fairweather's mentor at Union Seminary), the concept here has a different sense: notion of 'Being' is to be understood in its fullest Thomist sense, as presented, for example, by Etienne Gilson, with all its emphasis on the concrete and on the existential act at its heart (p. 77). The article offers a summa in miniature: The story of New Being begins with the primordial communication of being in creation by him who is. It comes to its term and goal, through history and sin, through incarnation, atonement and resurrection, through church, grace, sacraments and sacramental sacrifice, in this final, longed-for entrance into the glory of the eternal Being and Beauty, ever ancient but ever new (p. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".