Rich Mennonites in an Age of Mammon: Is a Messianic Political Economy Possible?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1977 a Canadian teaching at Messiah College in the United States published a ground-breaking book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, in which he argued that North American Christians were failing to discern or attend to the offensive proclamation of the gospel on the dangers of wealth.1 Ronald Sider, the author, bluntly asserted: “The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of 20th century North America and the adman is its prophet” (46). Affluent Christians, he went on to argue at the heart of the book – “A Biblical Perspective on the Poor and Possessions”– have allowed economic self-interest to distort their interpretation of Scripture (77). In contrast to certain liberation theologians who talked about God’s preferential option for the poor, Sider made the interesting argument that God is not partial; it only appears that way to those seduced by the God of affluence and success:
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".