Towards a Christian Philosophy of the Cross
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Abstract
Theologians, Biblical scholars, philosophers of religion, and others often confront something called ‘Christian philosophy’. It is typically left unclear, however, what such a philosophy consists in, or even what makes such a philosophy distinctive. This article provides some needed clarity by introducing a Christian philosophy of the cross, that is, of Christ crucified. It proposes that what makes a philosophy distinctively Christian is the same thing that makes anything else Christian: the role of Christ crucified. It doing so, it takes exception to some influential ‘Advice to Christian Philosophers’ offered by Alvin Plantinga, and it draws from some helpful insights of P.T. Forsyth on Christian authority and inquiry. The article offers some uniquely Christian advice to Christian philosophers and others, in accordance with the Christian message of Christ crucified.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 it