<b>Retracing Baptists in Rhode Island: Identity, Formation, and History</b>. <i>By J. Stanley Lemons</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
For many years, the standard for state Baptist history has been Norman H. Maring, Baptists in New Jersey: A Study in Transition (Judson, 1964). Now, this book sets a new standard: scholarly, informed, and empathetic with the subjects. Histories of regional and state Baptist life have suffered from out-of-date resources and inadequate professional attention, particularly in the northern and western regions. J. Stanley Lemons is well-qualified to have written this important book. A long-time professor of history at Rhode Island College and a member and leader of the oldest Baptist congregation in America (First Baptist, Providence), he is also the author of numerous works, including Baptists in Early North America: Vol. II, First Baptist, Providence, Rhode Island (Mercer, 2013). The book is organized under four headings: “Awakenings,” “Transformations,” “Divisions,” and “Remakings.” In the first section, the roots of the American Baptist heritage are revisited, especially noting the distinctives between five...
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.006 |
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".