Strangers in the right way: care across theological difference
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pastoral work will at times involve care practices with persons who do not share common theological (and political) commitments with the caregiver. Within the dynamics of pastoral encounters, it may not be viable for a caregiver to simply bracket their commitments. At a point where pastoral action must navigate this difference, Miroslav Volf’s encouragement to be a ‘stranger in the right way’ offers caregivers an interpretive metaphor for guiding pastoral action. To be a stranger in the right way entails choosing to provide a stable and caring environment in the midst of this difference. Such a posture embodies the Christian call to mercy. The stranger in the right way will be a chosen posture that maintains concern, and an empathetic stake in the wellbeing of the other, within the givenness of a situation.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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