Ecumenical Houses Conjoined: J.E.S. and the North American Academy of Ecumenists
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Journal Studies' Ecumenical News Notes section debuted the first volume's third issue (Fall, 1964) to apprise readers foundations laid for significant and exuberant ecumenical initiatives on local, national, and international levels. Examples from the first two years reporting include details about the first Hungarian Catholic-Lutheran Dialogue; the establishment the Gustave Weigel Society Washington, DC; the launching the Eastern Churches Review, and planning for a single common Christian Pavilion for Montreal's 1967 World Exhibition (the Vatican would have no separate pavilion). The third issue 1966 notified readers concerted planning that was underway for the Inaugural Conference the North American Academy Ecumenists. (1) The second (spring) issue 1967 provided details the soon-to-transpire conference, this on the same page that informed the success the Paulist Press-supported Living Room Dialogues initiative. (2) The subsequent conference report was accompanied by a special editorial commentary by Journal co-editor Elwyn A. Smith: Two years preparatory work were consummated at Chicago on June 18, 1967, with the founding the North American Academy Ecumenists.... Throughout Christendom the house that ecumenism must live is being built. The new Academy is spacious and well-joined. (3) Smith followed through noting that the initial list Academy members included many leading ecumenical scholars and leaders known to the readers this Journal.... In all, eleven the Journal's authors and four its associate editors participated the founding the (4) Within two years the Journal and Academy became organizationally conjoined at the intersection their core purposes. The Journal committed itself to the illumination of subjects new to modern ecumenical conversation ... [and] aspects faith and life which can improve our understanding problems which now resist solution and reconciliation, (5) and the Academy applied itself to the provision channels for mutual professional assistance, technical information about recent ecumenical developments, and training opportunities for those who will be called upon to give guidance ecumenical dialogue. (6) What follows here may be read as an extension this author's 1998 study the N.A.A.E's formative decade (7) and how the affiliated Academy and Journal together experienced and weathered the alternating updrafts and downdrafts the prevailing ecumenical climate North America through the subsequent decade-and-a-half. In the course a 1965 meeting, the Academy's planning architects engaged Smith about establishing the Journal as in some sense, the organ our association. (8) In March 1966, at Notre Dame, both Smith and Journal co-editor Leonard Swidler were received as guests at an Academy Planning Committee meeting. The inaugural meeting the N.A.A.E. convened with the Rev. William Top-moeller, S.J. (Loyola University, Chicago), chairing. Committees on courtesies and news releases presented their reports. The Constitution Committee provided a detailed review its work. The sub-report the Ad Hoc Committee on Future Programs, Publications, and Budget noted as follows: We heard a report on certain conversations that some our members have had with the Journal Studies. This revealed that a link with that distinguished Journal may be possible. The conversations thus far have been exploratory and have not yet obviously come to the state formal proposal. Since this arrangement would entail definite financial arrangements as well as a formal link with the Journal Studies, we recommend that the Executive Committee look further into the matter and when a proposal might take shape to bring it before the plenary assembly the Academy. (9) In late June 1967, Smith wrote to Executive Member John W. …
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.076 | 0.014 |
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".