Bibliographic record
Abstract
Grace and Truth in the Secular Age. Edited by Timothy Bradshaw. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998. xvi + 311 pp. $28.00 (paper). Major events in the life of the Church evoke reflection, much as the new millennium generates a cascade of fin de siecle musings. This volume collects essays published in 1997 written to anticipate the 1998 Lambeth Conference. goal of the authors is to reflect on cultural, ecclesial and theological issues underlying the divisions in the Anglican Communion. authors of these nineteen essays are mostly from England. However, authors also represent the larger Anglican Communion from the United States, Canada, Nigeria and Asia. authors include both ordained and lay, men and women, academics and parish clergy. Except for two initial essays collected under the heading of The Scope of Christ, the essays are gathered under the four themes of the preparatory documents for the Lambeth Conference. Under the heading Called to Full Humanity are four essays; under the heading Called to Love And Proclaim the Good News are also four essays; four more come under the heading Called to be Faithful in a Pluralistic Word; and four essays are gathered under the heading Called to be One. volume concludes with two Appendices. first contains Kuala Lumpur Statement of 1997; the second, Montreal Declaration of Essentials of June 1994. Uniting these essays is a shared point of view. That point of view can be called traditional, evangelical Anglicanism. As editor Bradshaw says at the beginning, [These essays] wish their church to remain catholic and reformed, holy and apostolic, scriptural and oriented by tradition, cautious and unhurried by strident demands arising from a sick Western culture (p. xv). Thus, these authors speak from faith to faith; they do not propose radical revisions of Christian teaching. Variety in writing skill, depth of thought and focus is inevitable in any collection. However, these essays demonstrate well-informed, thoughtful, deeply Christian reflection about central Christian convictions and about decisive features of the emerging postmodern culture. John Webster's essay exemplifies addressing the basics of the faith. What is the Gospel? editor's wisdom in his selection of essays and authors is demonstrated in this essay. For, indeed, the contemporary Church does not sufficiently reflect on what the gospel is and does not easily agree on what it is, when it does so reflect. Is the gospel justification of the sinner? Is the gospel participation in the divine life, begun now by faith, hope and love but consummated only beyond this life? Is the good news liberation in this life from all that dehumanizes? Is the gospel God's unconditional affirmation of each of us as we are, so that we can accept ourselves and in that strength accept others? What is the Christian gospel? recent publication by American evangelical Protestants of an Evangelical Confession is but one indication of the felt need to discern again in our time what is the Gospel. …
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
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".