Experiencing Gospel: Luther, Men, Women, and Children around the Table in Reformation and Contemporary Eras; A Tribute to Gordon Jensen
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Building primarily on Gordon A. Jensen’s text Experiencing Gospel: The History and Creativity of Martin Luther’s 1534 Bible Project (2023) and the work of Kirsi I. Stjerna et. al in Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Texts, and Contexts (2022), this essay demonstrates that the theological legacies of knowable Reformation era men, women, and children (in their own cultural, geographic, and linguistic contexts) can be recognized as having crossed the Atlantic with explorers, settlers, and pioneers and that these theological legacies continue to shape North American religious-cultural contexts today. The combined depth and quality of the cited research from Jensen and Stjerna et. al. opens up new ground for research in Reformation and Contemporary era Studies and Luther Studies. Their works pair well with intersectional interdisciplinary scholarly efforts to move beyond limited traditional categories of academic inquiry (such as gender, as demonstrated in emerging works by authors involved in the The Alternative Luther: Lutheran Theology from the Subaltern Project, and the 2SLGBTQIA+ Issue (Vol. 43: Iss. 2) of Consensus: A Canadian Journal of Public Theology. In addition to scholarly writings (books, journals, and reference works), this essay highlights little known materials available to researchers through Canadian and international archivists, archives, and museums that can advance studies in Reformation history and theology and Contemporary social and religious histories. This essay recognizes that French Protestantism, particularly in Canadian colonial history, and North American Lutheran history, remains poorly acknowledged. This essay lifts up and features evidence-based research materials to construct profiles of women in history, particularly Reformation history and Canadian history. This writing is an effort towards the advancement of domestic and global ecumenism in the year of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Council of Churches.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.054 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 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".