The Genealogy of "Heresy" Leslie Dewart As Icon of the Catholic 1960s
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Abstract
This article sketches a portrait of Leslie Dewart as a philosopher-prophet of renewal, advocate of de-hellenization, and unlikely icon of religious revolution during a period of singular turbulence in the Catholic Church in the United States. This portrait is framed against the background of the University of Dayton “Heresy Affair” of 1967. Prominent participants in the “heresy affair” were students of the Spanish-Canadian philosopher Leslie Dewart of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. In the spring of 1967, Dewart came to the University of Dayton to answer the question, “What is Happening in the Church?” During those heady days of the late 1960s, Dewart’s The Future of Belief (1966) joined The Secular City by Harvey Cox as major articulations of a widespread feeling of revolutionary religious transformation. Along with more conventional sources such as Dewart’s address as Dayton, The Future of Belief, and periodical literature of the period, the author also draws upon personal recollections of the late 1960s in the American Catholic church. Dewart is emblematic of the period in two ways. First is his embrace of “contemporary experience”, a phrase that cries out for interrogation. Second is his approach to the relationship between philosophy and theology. The latter typifies a modern Catholic intellectualist assumption that takes an autonomous philosophy as theology’s necessary foundation.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| 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.
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