Bibliographic record
Abstract
This Doctor of Ministry thesis looks at the ministry of evangelism. Specifically, it looks at the practice of this ministry in three Anglican suburban churches in southwestern Ontario – the churches of Trinity, Aurora, Trinity, Streetsville and the writer’s parish of St. Simon’s in Oakville – for the purpose of creating an evangelism plan for St. Simon’s that is theologically sound and uses the tool of marketing. The history of Anglicanism and its impact on the present-day practice of the ministry of evangelism are examined to provide theoretical background. In addition, great attention is paid to the theologian David Bosch. His definition of evangelism is at the core of this thesis. Additionally, his explanation of paradigm shift is foundational to understanding the church’s move from the Enlightenment paradigm to the emerging ecumenical paradigm. Key, too, is the distinction he makes between dimensional and intentional evangelism, and the importance he places on creating points of connection helps to form the direction of this thesis. Furthermore, an understanding of the present-day religious landscape and demographics are discussed along with a reflection on how marketing can be used to strengthen the ministry of evangelism.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".