Researching global Christian Zionism: a historian’s suggestions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Lewis suggests ten themes for studying the growth of Christian Zionism (CZ) in the Global South. Identity: globally, CZ is more about Christian identity than any prophetic schema. Culture: appropriation, or not, of aspects of Jewish culture. Power: reflected in political lobbying, but also in philanthropy. Prophecy: CZ does not depend on dispensationalism. In each context, what role do prophetic schema occupy? Orientalism: how does global southern CZ, and its notions of national role, relate to Orientalist readings? Media: what media have CZs used in each context? Network Christianity: broader than New Apostolic Reformation; how does this influence CZ in each context? Catholicism: while Protestant restorationism historically viewed Catholicism as inimical, the twentieth century saw dramatic changes. In each context, does CZ reflect this? Philo-Semitism: CZ sees itself as philo-Semitic, while sometimes perpetuating disturbing stereotypes. Proselytism: most CZs have been eager to evangelise Jews. How do CZs in each context behave?
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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 | 0.014 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.033 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.030 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 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".