The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in An Age of Extremism. <i>By Tim Alberta</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Journal of Church and State states on its webpage that it is concerned with what has been called the “greatest subject in the history of the West.” Tim Alberta’s The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory demonstrates just how significant and troublesome that issue is at this particular moment. Framed by an explanatory prologue and a hopeful epilogue, the book offers vignettes across twenty-one chapters divided into three parts that provide an “examination of Christianity writ large” to investigate how what amounts to an internecine struggle within evangelical churches during the Trump years came to be (p. 9). The motives for this journey are personal and professional, and one should also say confessional. In search of answers, Alberta spent four years immersed in the modern evangelical movement in America. Yet, despite the emphasis on journalistic fieldwork set within a historical overview of the American religious right, the driving issue for Alberta is finding the “best explanation for what afflicts the Church,” which he also sees “evident” at his church, an affliction he describes as a “crisis of American evangelicalism,” which “comes down to an obsession with … worldly identity” (p. 13).
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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 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".