Distant Reader - subject-christianity-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 63 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 4,780,038 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 75,873 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 91. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

god, christ, will, one, man, may, us, shall, first, men, things, yet, good, therefore, gods, must, made, life, great, world, also, now, church, make, spirit, much, time, without, faith, saith, though, lord, true, say, many, power, holy, nature, doth, sin, thing, reason, law, hee, word, see, might, come, body, well

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A systeme or body of divinity consisting of ten books : wherein the fundamentals and main grounds of religion are opened, the contrary errours refuted, most of the controversies between us, the papists, Arminians, and Socinians discussed and handled, several Scriptures explained and vindicated from corrupt glosses : a work seasonable for these times, wherein so many articles of our faith are questioned, and so many gross errours daily published / by Edward Leigh., Christ and his Church: or, Christianity explained, under seven evangelical and ecclesiastical heads; viz. Christ I. Welcomed in his nativity. II. Admired in his Passion. III. Adored in his Resurrection. IV. Glorified in his Ascension. V. Communicated in the coming of the Holy Ghost. VI. Received in the state of true Christianity. VII. Reteined in the true Christian communion. With a justification of the Church of England according to the true principles of Christian religion, and of Christian communion. By Ed. Hyde, Dr. of Divinity, sometimes fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, and late rector resident at Brightwell in Berks., and St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H..

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

holy ghost, roman non, jesus christ, must needs, let us, every one, christian religion, new testament, every man, one another, right hand, old testament, god will, iesus christ, holy spirit, lord jesus, saint paul, eternal life, english books, early english, true god, much less, tells us, whole world, one god, christian faith, take away, nothing else, will make, holy scriptures, divine nature, god doth, shall come, books online, humane nature, christ jesus, two things, saviour christ, take heed, good things, make us, may bee, many things, man may, christian church, every thing, set forth, catholick church, may see, blessed saviour

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Christ and his Church: or, Christianity explained, under seven evangelical and ecclesiastical heads; viz. Christ I. Welcomed in his nativity. II. Admired in his Passion. III. Adored in his Resurrection. IV. Glorified in his Ascension. V. Communicated in the coming of the Holy Ghost. VI. Received in the state of true Christianity. VII. Reteined in the true Christian communion. With a justification of the Church of England according to the true principles of Christian religion, and of Christian communion. By Ed. Hyde, Dr. of Divinity, sometimes fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, and late rector resident at Brightwell in Berks. A strange prophet now in England Being a true relation, sent to a person of quality, now in Oxford., and Sparkles of glory, or Some beams of the morning-star. Wherein are many discoveries as to truth, and peace. To the establishment, and pure enlargement of a Christian in spirit and truth. / By John Saltmarsh. Preacher of the Gospell..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

god, lord, christ, church, spirit, law, father, son, world, christian, gospel, tcp, saviour, religion, holy, life, nature, gods, faith, soul, power, body, scripture, divine, covenant, roman, man, king, jews, apostle, truth, saints, reason, cor, angels, word, testament, person, paul, laws, kingdom, ghost, earth, doctrine, churches, chap, sun, sect, rom, resurrection

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be god, and An explanation of the grand mystery of godliness, or, A true and faithfull representation of the everlasting Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the onely begotten Son of God and sovereign over men and angels by H. More ... is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

man, things, men, life, time, thing, power, sin, reason, body, world, death, faith, nature, day, others, way, self, words, nothing, truth, people, part, place, hath, name, gods, end, heart, p., glory, word, soul, sins, grace, scripture, religion, love, one, knowledge, doth, person, flesh, hee, earth, sense, will, light, none, manner

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, are, was, have, were, had, being, do, made, make, did, say, been, come, said, called, see, let, know, take, according, hath, set, give, done, given, has, put, concerning, think, believe, taken, having, bee, came, found, call, makes, am, brought, go, doth, find, sent, bring, 〈, keep, speak, live

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

god, 〉, ◊, 〈, christ, lord, church, spirit, thou, hath, gods, c., law, christian, father, l., heaven, holy, son, world, king, christians, gospel, rom, cor, ●, de, saviour, chap, divine, jesus, man, faith, est, word, hee, wee, christs, paul, angels, jews, bee, nature, lib, john, psal, soul, st., iohn, doe

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, his, he, they, their, them, him, we, our, i, us, you, my, himself, me, her, thy, themselves, its, your, she, thee, one, theirs, ours, ye, mine, vp, itself, vvhat, yours, whereof, ourselves, vnto, gods, whosoever, non, ii, thou, hers, em, elias, ''em, herself, yee, s, hee, ''s, u, †

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, such, great, good, own, same, first, true, many, more, whole, much, saith, holy, second, last, necessary, little, common, natural, non, greater, new, very, able, least, spiritual, old, full, better, present, particular, false, -, roman, right, most, perfect, outward, dead, free, best, wicked, several, certain, greatest, general, former, eternal, third

not, so, then, therefore, more, also, now, as, only, most, up, yet, well, first, thus, very, out, here, much, even, never, onely, there, ever, rather, forth, indeed, away, thereof, again, far, down, all, that, together, is, secondly, too, in, still, before, else, no, off, long, once, truly, often, especially, alone

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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