Extra Leaves for the Family Table: Resources for Interreligious Conversation
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Abstract
Gleanings: Readings at the Intersection of Culture and Faith Extra Leaves for the Family Table: Resources for Interreligious Conversation Books Discussed Not Without My Neighbor: Issues in lntcrfaith Relations. By Wesley S. Ariarajah. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1999. 130 pp. $9.95 (paper). Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Self-Understanding. By Mary C. Boys. New York: Paulist Press, 2000. vi + 393 pp. $29.95 (paper). A New Religious America: How a Christian Country Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation. By Diana L. Eck. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2002. xx + 404 pp. $17.95 (paper). Living Religions. 5th ed. By Mary Pat Fisher. Upper Saddle River, NJ.: Prentice-Hall, 2003. 512 pp. $73.80 (paper). Daughters of Abraham: Feminist Thought in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Edited by Yvonne Yazbek Haddad and John Esposito. Gainesville, FIa.: University Press of Florida, 2001. xiii + 162 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Mansions of the Spirit: The Gospel in a Multi-Faith World. Bv Michael Ingham. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1997. 167 pp. CDN$18.95 (paper). The Road Ahead: A Christian-Muslim Dialogue: A Record of the Seminar Building Bridges Held at Lambeth Palace, 17-18 January 2002. Edited by Michael Ipgrave. London: Church House Publishing, 2002; New York: Church Publishing Incorporated, 2004. xviii + 142 pp. £9.95 / $20.00 (paper). The Dialogical Imperative: A Reflection on Interfaith Encounter. By David Lochhead. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1988. viii + 104 pp. o.p. Irreconcilable Differences? A Learning Resource for Jews and Christians. Edited by David Fox Sandmel, Rosann M. Catalane, and Christopher M. Leighton. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 2001. xii + 219pp. $25.00 (cloth). This article is a reflection on interreligious conversation and a review of a selection of books recently recommended as aids for that process. The texts are from a list developed by the Office of Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations of the Episcopal Church. Our guide in the reflection is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who in the years since his installation has given a number of public talks on these matters. Those talks will provide the criteria upon which the texts will be evaluated. It must be said at the outset that, particularly in the area of interreligious approaches and particularly after the events of September 11, 2001, fools will rush in where angels, djinns, and emanations have feared to tread-or are even forbidden to tread. Little can ever be accomplished in this arena if the goal is solely self-serving reassurance. No doubt one of the fundamental rearrangements of consciousness in the affluent practitioners of American religion that took place that September day was the new notion that what you don't know can indeed hurt you. In the aftermath, curiosity about other religions-particularly Islam-achieved intensities unparalleled since 1893 and the first Parliament of the World's Religions. However, while fear may have fanned the urgency, it cannot be the foundation for interreligious work. Fear flares up when survival is at stake, and survival is concerned only with those aspects of ourselves which we find undefended and therefore perceive as threatened. Under such conditions, our interest in the conversation will concern only those matters about which we feel insecure in either religion: the presumed meekness of Christianity or the purported militancy of Islam, in both cases caricatures. The desire for reassurance is in fact a desire to be done and go on our way; we want to know enough to satisfy ourselves that the threatening shape was a passing shadow. Entangled in our anxieties, we will fail to examine, appraise, and appreciate those aspects of either faith that bring joy and confidence and hope-aspects which might, in fact, attract our partners in the conversation. …
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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 |
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| 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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.001 | 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".