Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical, Theological and Historical Studies, edited by Anna Marmodoro and Neil B. McLynn
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This volume of edited papers is the fruit of a seminar on Gregory of Nyssa convened in Oxford in 2016.Aside from the introductory chapter, there are eleven papers from scholars known for their research in early Christianity, particularly of this Cappadocian Bishop of the late fourth century.As the editors point out in their introduction, there is not a common thread joining these papers together save for the shared focus on Gregory of Nyssa.Instead, a group of scholars variously concerned with Gregory's historical, philosophical, and theological setting have been given latitude to present their own research interests.As such, the editors have rightly decided to forego a concluding chapter, as it would prove futile to try to draw these disparate papers together.Readers hoping for a cohesive monograph on some aspect of Gregory of Nyssa's life and work will be rightly disappointed.The trade-off for this disappointment is a collection of engaging papers from recognized scholars in Nyssen studies.The volume opens with some historical chapters.The first essay by John Anthony McGuckin is largely contextual.In his engaging and laconic prose, McGuckin situates Gregory as a hierarch, philosopher, exegete, and theologian.Although Gregory's biographical details (his family, his participation in councils, his travels) are known in broad strokes, the details of various aspects of his life are gleaned in a tentative manner from his own writings.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".