Doctrina Lectionis : Lessons from Lectio Divina for Benedictine Colleges
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Doctrina Lectionis: Lessons from Lectio Divina for Benedictine Colleges Thomas L. Humphries Jr. (bio) Thomas L. Humphries Thomas L. Humphries is a happily married dad and Professor of philosophy, theology, and religion at Saint Leo University, St. Leo, FL. He is a member of the Academy of Catholic Theology and the author of Ascetic Pneumatology (Oxford, 2013) and Who is Chosen? (Wipf & Stock, 2017). Footnotes 1. In my own learning to communicate with others the editors and reviewers at ABR have been most helpful. I wish also to thank my colleague, Daniel Lloyd, who has been a prayerful dialogue partner in both the theory and the practice expressed in this article. 2. In part this is a response to the Association of Benedictine Colleges and Universities' hallmark #2: "prayer" understood as "a life marked by liturgy, lectio, and mindfulness." See "Education within the Benedictine Wisdom Tradition," adopted by the ABCU in 2006 from the address of William J. Cahoy, available at https://www.abcu.info/abcu-education-within-the-benedictine-w. 3. Augustine, De Doctrina Christiania, 1.36.40, trans. R. P. H. Green, On Christian Teaching, Oxford World's Classics (Oxford, 1999), 27. 4. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectio_Divina. Youtube.com lists several videos in a search for "lectio divina" that were created by individual theologians as well as major presses, many of which have total views measured in the tens of thousands. 5. Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Homiletic Directory (2015), 27–36; Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (2013), 152; Benedict XVI, Verbum Domini (2010), 35, 46, 82–87; USCCB, Fulfilled in Your Hearing (1982), 22–23, 36–39. The USCCB has published the series Lectio Divina of the Gospels for the Liturgical Year in both English and Spanish since 2020. 6. E.g. Mariano Magrassi's 1990 Bibbia e preghiera: La lectio divina was translated as Praying the Bible, an Introduction to Lectio Divina, trans. Edward Hagman, O.F.M. Cap. (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1998); Michael Casey, Sacred Reading, the Ancient Art of Lectio Divina (Ligouri, MO: Triumph Books, 1995); Basil Pennington, Lectio Divina: Renewing the Ancient Practice of Praying the Scriptures, (New York: Crossroads, 1998). For the more advanced reader, Duncan Robertson, Lectio Divina: The Medieval Experience of Reading, Cistercian Studies 238 (Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications, 2011), and Daniel Rees, et alia, Consider Your Call: A Theology of Monastic Life Today (London: SPCK, 1978) are exceptional. The classic study remains Jean Leclercq, L'Amour des lettres et le désire de Dieu, trans. C. Misrahi as The Love of Learning and the Desire for God (New York: Fordham University Press, 1974). Fr. Luke Dysinger continues to make available quality resources online: from the Manual for Oblates (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2009), http://ldysinger.stjohnsem.edu/@books/Dysinger/publs/2008_lectio_div_collegeville.pdf, and "Accepting the Embrace of God: The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina," https://saintandrewsabbey.com/homily/accepting-the-embrace-of-god-the-ancient-art-of-lectio-divina/. 7. E.g. Cindy Crosby, ed. Ancient Christian Devotional: A Year of Weekly Readings (Downer's Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2007, 2009, 2011); Edith Barnecut, ed. Journey with the Fathers: Commentaries on the Sunday Gospels (New York: New City Press, 1992, 1993, 1994); and for the vetus ordo, D. G. Hubert, Sundays and Festivals with the Fathers of the Church (reprinted Waterloo, ON, Canada: Arouca Press, 2020). 8. Casey, Sacred Reading, 16. 9. Rees, Consider Your Call, 263–266, 269, and Georg Holzherr, O.S.B., The Rule of Benedict: An Invitation to the Christian Life, trans. Mark Thamert, O.S.B., Cistercian Studies Series 256 (Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications, 2016), 373–382 provide an excellent overview. In regard to the extent and nature of reading, Benedict is often contrasted with Cassiodorus, with Cassiodorus taken to present a period of study less obviously prayerful than Benedict encourages in the Rule (J. LeClercq, The Love of Learning, 19–22). 10. Benedict recommends reading Scripture, monastic literature from Cassian and Basil ("founders" of monasticism), and the Lives of the Fathers (RB 72). Denys Gorce, La lectio divina des origenes du cénobitisme à saint Benoît et Cassiodore (Wépion-sur-Meuse, Belgium: Monastère du...
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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 | 0.012 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.003 |
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".