For the Sake of The Call: The Eschatological Vision of a Pentecostal Prairie Pastor
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Abstract
Using examples from the personal memoirs of a small-town Prairie pastor, Ernest Shelvey, the paper argues for otherwise possibility as an interpretive framework for his life and ministry. Based upon Shelvey's belief in a possible God, History became, not the consequence of cause and effect, but rather the unfolding of God’s will on earth. For the sake of the call referenced an eschatological “may be” that legitimized an uncertain way of being in the world. As an assertion or wager of an open history, one that was “not yet” determined by a human will, Shelvey's call allowed for a radical openness to “life in the spirit”. This orientation, as theorized by philosopher Richard Kearney, made a unique difference in Shelvey's life, training and ministry by opening up a spiritual space of generousity, by possibilizing God into the everyday experience, and by potentializing opportunities to redeem human action and instill hope for an alternate future than that which could have been predicted. Incorporating narratives like Shelvey's into the standard denominational and sociological interpretations may open up new opportunities to understand the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada as a movement and a fellowship.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".