Bibliographic record
Abstract
^HE term, Ecclesiastical Law, is used here not merely, as in England, to describe the laws made by Parliament for the regulation of the Established Church, but in its widest sense, as including all law relating to religion.There is in Canada, as in other lands, much variety in the constitutions, rules and regulations of different churches.Are there any underlying lines of unity along which it is possible that they might flow to- gether into one strong constitution, adequate to all the demands that can come against a church ?This in- quiry must lead us back to the origin of Christianity.The great founder of the Christian religion at- tempted no organization of His followers into any- thing like the church of modern times.He set up no visible model before the coming ages.He created no permanent positions of pre-eminence among His people.He defined no clear lines along which, externally, His growing body should develop itself.After the work of teaching Christianity to the world fell wholly into the hands of the apostles, some signs of organization began to appear.But these in- spired teachers evidently had before their minds no definite plan of the future structure, as it was to be in every age, with all its varied appointments, and their respective relations to each other.The organization of Christianity, the integration of different parts, the bringing together of many congre- gations, and even of wide territories, under one juris- diction, the creation of officers, superior and inferior, with the definitions of duty pertaining to each, and fixing their proper relations, until the church was one compact body, all its parts subject to one head, and working together with military effectiveness,all this came only after centuries of growth, under changing conditions, according to the suggestions of practical necessity, or as cherished ambitions, or personal ani- mosities succeeded in burning their impress upon the rising structure.The Laity.*In the Christian dispensation, the Jewish idea of a wide distinction between the priesthood and the people, "Neander, "Church History," Section II."The laity have also the right to administer the sacraments, and to teach in the community.The Word of God and the sacraments were, by the grace of God, communicated to all, and may, therefore, be communicated by all Christians as instruments of the Divine grace."Tertullian, in Be Baptismo."All were accustomed to teach and to baptize."Coleman,The Apostolical and Primitive Church.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 teacher head, 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".