According to Thy Word: An Interpretation of the Meaning of Traditional Liturgical Prose
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Abstract
The thesis question may be stated as follows: What meaning does the experience of traditional liturgical prose (TLP) provide to the worshippers in the congregation of St. George’s Anglican Church, Windsor, Ontario? The study begins with a narration of the personal background of the Rev’d Gordon Maitland, and the ministry setting and character of St. George’s Anglican Church. The paper then explicates the theological foundations that are behind the research being undertaken, which includes a discussion of the secular context of contemporary Canadian society, Gordon’s general adhesion to the ideas and principles to be found in the countercultural Radical Orthodoxy school of theology, and an understanding of Gordon’s personal theology of ministry. A general definition of liturgical prose is proposed by reference to the work of Gail Ramshaw, and then a more narrowly defined explication of traditional liturgical prose is made by reference to the work of Stella Brook. This is followed by a chapter in which there is a survey of English language liturgical texts over a wide variety of denominations in North America since the 1960’s so as to set the current study in an ecumenical and inter-church context, and to set the stage for a suggested re-appropriation of traditional liturgical prose within this context. The methodology of the Action-in-Ministry, an instrumental case study to construct the meaning or understanding of the experience of traditional liturgical prose for those who worship at St. George’s Church, was then explained. The results of the research were coded and studied for recurring themes, and conclusions were drawn from this data. In the end, it was concluded that the worshippers at St. George’s Anglican Church have a positive meaning of traditional liturgical prose, and understand it to be a beautiful, evocative language that draws the worshipper apart from the ordinary realities of everyday life, and helps the worshipper enter into a prayerful and reverent setting or space for the contemplation of God.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.046 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| 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 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".