Preaching Methodist Theology and Biblical Truth: Classic Sermons of C. K. Barrett
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Charles Kingsley Barrett (1917–2011) was one of the most eminent British biblical scholars of the twentieth century, responsible, inter alia, for a seminal commentary on the Gospel of John (1955). Kingsley Barrett was also a Methodist minister, serving in the Darlington circuit during the Second World War and then, following his appointment to the theology faculty at the University of Durham, preaching regularly in the churches of the Durham circuit. His sermon notebooks, containing 300 meticulously prepared longhand sermons, are now in the library of Asbury Theological Seminary, and Ben Witherington III, a former student of Barrett's, has transcribed and edited a selection of seventy-five characteristic texts for the present volume. The earliest sermon dates from 1938; the latest from the first decade of the twenty-first century. Barrett reused his sermons, some as many as fifty times. Witherington provides a brief introduction, emphasizing Barrett's commitment in his preaching to biblical scholarship, Wesleyan theology, and practical application. These features are amply demonstrated in the sermons, which, with the editor's unobtrusive explanatory footnotes, still repay reading.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".