Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This article explores the place and framework for a socially transformative Christology, particularly in Africa. More specifically, it calls attention to the importance of grassroots christological imagination in the discussion of the social relevance of faith in Jesus Christ in Africa. The essay begins with highlighting the marginalization of the christological narratives of Christians at the grassroots still present in some of the academic discussions about the meaning and social significance of Christ in African Christianity. It then argues that taking seriously the grassroots Christologies, and a more critical-empathetic engagement of them within the framework of imagination and image, open up an effective way of doing Christology ‘from within’ the proclamation and longing of the People of God, who are graced to become both the embodiment and agents of Christ’s transforming presence and act. To this end, the article attempts to trace something of the mutual illumination connecting Christology and the transformation of society in Africa. And in doing so, it contributes to the task of bridging the gap that often exists between popular and academic Christologies.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.033 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.002 |
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".