Anglican via-media: an instrument for theological discourse on same sex marriage in church of Nigeria Anglican communion
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Anglican via-media means the middle path in matters between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. In essence, it avoids going to the extreme in any matter and at the same time being guided by its basic principles. However, in contemporary times this concept has been misinterpreted to mean compromise and the resultant effect of such interpretation was the election and consecration of an open gay, Gene Robinson as bishop in the Episcopal Church of United States of America in 2003, the legalization of same-sex marriage and ordination of homosexuals in Anglican Church of Canada and the boycott of 2008 Lambeth Conference by the Global South that comprises the conservative Anglicans. In view of this, this work has uncovered historically meaning of this concept, Anglican via-media and has clarified that the concept never includes compromise on the authority of the Holy Scripture. At the same time, it has looked at the implications of this misconception on the development of the Anglican Communion in Nigeria. Hence, this work concludes that theologically, Anglican via-media never stretch so far to include heresy rather; it upholds the authority of Holy Scripture and is being guided by the 39 Articles of Religion and 1888 Lambert Quadrilateral. In other words, it recommends that viamedia can still serve as a veritable tool in solving the present challenges.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".