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Teaching From the Center

2006· article· en· W2257852158 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Michael Christensen

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Christian Education And Information Technology · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicChristian Theology and Mission
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSpiritualityMetaphorPassionsFaithSpiritual formationMeaning (existential)TheologySociologyCenter (category theory)AestheticsPhilosophyReligious studiesEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932-1996), known best for his books--The Wounded Healer and The Return of the Prodigal Son?was the author of over 40 books on the spiritual life that witnessed to a spirituality of the as the deepest meaning of theology. A Dutch psychologist, Roman Catholic priest and popular author, Nouwen taught pastoral theology at Notre Dame, Yale and Harvard Universities before becoming pastor of L’Arche community near Toronto. His major contribution to Christian spirituality and Christian education is an emphasis on the primacy of the over head. The spirituality of the is what is prior to and beyond cognitive belief. In all religions and faith traditions, beliefs matter, right actions matter, and proper rituals are important. But what is most important is a good, right and warm heart. Since considers the quality of the before judging cognitive beliefs of the mind or the actions of the body, the way of the is key for Nouwen doing theology and in teaching from center. The spiritual is the primary reality and spiritual construct in the theology of Henri Nouwen. The word heart in Scripture is a metaphor for spiritual life at its depth. It is the center of being, well of emotions, out of which may flow both good and evil thoughts and actions. The spiritual feels and intuits reality, which nourishes beliefs and actions, attitudes and passions. Mystically, according to Nouwen, our heart--the center of being--is a part of God. It is that sacred space within us where dwells and we are invited to dwell with God. The Way of the Heart in the spirituality of Nouwen is the way of inner purity and transformation, beginning with a spiritual awakening, purification, growth and development of a divine in the body of a human being, lived out in community and service in the world. The Practice of the Heart is called compassion. It is the experience of letting your be broken by the things that break the of God and acting on this visceral intuition of Divine will. This is what it means to live and teach from the center of being, prior to and beyond cognitive belief. This is the spirit of practical theology and Christian education, even in a technological age.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
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 score0.085
Threshold uncertainty score0.285

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0060.003
Scholarly communication0.0060.005
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0020.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0850.027

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.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.213
Teacher spread0.208 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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