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Record W2213166761 · doi:10.25071/0848-1563.39113

Myth Meets Reality: Canadian Presbyterians and the Great War

2012· article· en· W2213166761 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Stuart Macdonald

Bibliographic record

VenueHistorical Papers · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHistoriographyChristianityMythologyHistoryCriticismSpanish Civil WarClassicsReligious studiesLiteratureArtPhilosophyArchaeology

Abstract

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In his article "The Great War," which appeared in the final volume of the Cambridge History of Christianity, Michael Snape summarizes the themes and historiography that have developed related to the Christian churches' response to the First World War. He notes that "much harsh and selfrighteous criticism" has been leveled at the "churches' wartime attitudes and activities." To quote him further: "the historiography of Christianity 1 during the war years has been heavily focused on the churches and their leadership and has been strongly influenced by the pacifism of the interwar and Cold War eras." He goes on to recognize that while there is 2 "plenty of scope for moralizing and recrimination," these themes have confused our understanding of these years. Again, to quote Michael Snape: "what they have obscured is the fundamental fact that the churches interpreted the war and their role within it in the light of their nineteenthcentury experiences and outlook, not in the more chastened spirit of later decades of the twentieth." n important point has been made here. If there is one thing historians should be concerned about, it is the possibility that we might be unfairly reading back into the past values and expectations from a later time, in particular from our own times. We as historians struggle with our biases, those we are conscious of as well as those of which we may remain unaware. That attitudes to war changed in the twentieth century should not be a surprise. To state the obvious, the Great War did not succeed in ending all wars; instead, it laid the seeds for another, even greater

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.854
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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