The Significance Of The Practical Theological Work Of Dr. John Mcnicol For Canadian Evangelicalism In The Twentieth Century
Bibliographic record
Abstract
of a thesis presented to Briercrest Seminary in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PRACTICAL-THEOLOGICAL WORK OF DR. JOHN MCNICOL FOR CANADIAN EVANGELICALISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Warren H. Charlton July 2007 This thesis will demonstrate that Dr. John McNicol’s significance for Canadian evangelicalism was primarily focussed in the Toronto Bible College but extended to the entire Bible School movement within North America. The premise of this thesis is that McNicol’s true significance is found in the two transcendent spiritual principles of Word and Spirit that lay at the heart of his practical-theological work. Attention is given to the testimonials of McNicol’s peers and students that are found in the primary documents in order evaluate the impact of his ministry from 1902 to 1954. McNicol’s writings and annual reports as principal from 1906 to 1946 were consulted to uncover his passion and policies as a Christian educator and theologian. It discovered that McNicol’s theology of Word and Spirit was uniformly applied to all aspects of the college. The Bible was
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".