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Mazes of Time, Sixteen Gregorys: The Story of a Methodist Family

2023· article· en· W4383378426 on OpenAlex
Gareth J. Powell

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Bibliographic record

VenueWesley and Methodist Studies · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAmerican Constitutional Law and Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMethodismFaithNature versus nurtureScholarshipWarrantChristian ministryTheologyReligious studiesSociologyPhilosophyEnvironmental ethicsLawPolitical science

Abstract

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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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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.963
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
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Bibliometrics0.0000.000
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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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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.

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Opus teacher head0.108
GPT teacher head0.420
Teacher spread0.312 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it