Bibliographic record
Abstract
That one family, spanning four generations, should include sixteen Wesleyan Methodist ministers is remarkable. Thankfully, Felicity Cain, daughter of the last of the ordained Gregorys, has gathered together a remarkable collection of memories, facts, and insights to assist in the task of paying greater attention to a major dynasty. The significance, of course, lies not only in familial nurture but in the sheer depth of that nurture, which was such a fundamental element of earlier Methodists’ practice. Handing on the faith was normative and lively. The life of the ordained ministry was a notion worth taking seriously, and each of the sixteen did. There are common threads here of paying attention to the nature of God’s love revealed in Christ, the task of exploring the Christian faith with the utmost energy, understanding Methodism’s place in the catholic faith, and holding a global view. Cain states at the outset that this is a personal story and not an academic study. In making the story more widely available she has done a great service to wider Methodist scholarship, for here are figures and ideas that warrant further study. She goes on to state that this is about people, not theology. I am not sure I agree, for the wholly positive reason that what she offers the reader is a glimpse into a theological endeavour that started in 1799 with the ordination of Benjamin Gregory and ended with the death of A. S. Gregory in 1989—but through the ministry of the Gregory Sixteen lives on.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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".