EVANGELISM: LEARNING FROM THE PAST. By MichaelGreen. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2023. Pp. xiv + 170. Paperback, $22.99.
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Abstract
Feldmeier and Spieckerman provide a comprehensive treatment of the doctrine of the incarnation in the Bible.The book's two main sections are Prehistory in the OT and Incarnation in the NT.In the OT, God uses human representatives-messengers, mediators, and others with special closeness to God-to proclaim his will, acts, and willingness to forgive sinners and draw them back to himself.These "bearers of hope" display royal, priestly, and prophetic characteristics and proclaim new and unexpected closeness of God.God also used mediatory figures to uphold God's righteousness, demand it of his people, and remind them of his compassionate (hesed) love for them.Throughout their treatment of mediation in the OT, the authors present texts that prefigure the ultimate mediator-God's Son (i.e., the Anointed One, God's Child, the One Endowed with the Spirit, the Son of Man, the Shepherd, Son of David, and the Servant), and intertextual echoes/references that connect to this ultimate mediator.They also discuss mediators in Second Temple Jewish literature.In the second section of their book, the authors analyze God's incarnation of Jesus Christ as the central theological theme of the NT.Some of the main theological topics discussed are: Son of God, Son of Man, Soteriology, Christological Monotheism, Christ Jesus as Lord, the Word, the Light of the World, and the Lamb.In Jesus, the rule of God is in its closest proximity to human beings, and God's will is made known.Jesus demands that humans respond to this closeness through their conduct since Jesus mirrors the conduct of God the Father.The authors highlight Jesus' mediatorial role in his public ministry, suffering/death, and resurrection/exaltation. Feldmeier and Spieckermann provide the reader with an excellent, comprehensive treatment of the incarnation.More details on how the incarnation relates to the parousia would have been helpful, as the Son of Man's parousia brings culmination to Jesus' incarnational role.This book is appropriate for graduate and scholarly audiences and would be an excellent resource for courses in OT Theology, NT Theology, and Christology.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.071 | 0.034 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".