Ian Bradley, <i>Celtic Christianity: Making Myths and Chasing Dreams</i>
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Abstract
radley's newest effort provides a welcome addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in Celtic history, theology, or the issues surrounding cultural myth-making.The topic of Celtic Christianity has for centuries attracted considerable interest among diverse groups of people who, as Bradley emphasizes, have tended to be of non-Celtic ancestry and with a set of political and religious agendas that have leaned heavily upon Celtic tradition.In addressing the reasons for this enduring appeal, Bradley identifies six distinct movements of Celtic Christian revivalism, spanning the period from the eighth century to the present.He also detects a number of common themes which link the motivations and aspirations of those most deeply involved in each of the revivals.He does not take up the contentious and ultimately futile debate concerning the definition of Celtic Christianity or the "Celtic Church", but concentrates instead on tracing the development of these concepts within popular consciousness.Bradley identifies the fifth to the mid-seventh centuries as the essential core of Celtic Christian revivalism.The founding period of Christianity in Celtic Britain, these centuries witnessed the missionary and evangelizing activities of the early Church in the British Isles.The spiritual vitality which characterized this "age of saints", combined with a dearth of documentary or archaeological evidence for the period, laid the foundations for a centuries-long pattern of idealization and appropriation of the story of the early "Celtic Church".The hagiographers of the eighth and ninth centuries were motivated politically to enhance the reputations of the early Celtic saints and, by weaving
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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.
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