The other side of whiteness: The Dutch Reformed Church and the search for a theology of racial reconciliation in the afterlife of apartheid
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article will provide an overview and analysis of developments in the Dutch \nReformed Church’s (DRC) General Synod concerning race, racism, and racial \nreconciliation from 1986 until 2019. It seeks to extend the multiple accounts of the \nDRC’s adoption and rejection of apartheid theology by tracing its further attempts at \ngrappling with questions of racism during and after the transition to democracy, into \nthe present. Three primary discourses are explored, namely the search for an inclusive \necclesiology, the commitment to community involvement in the reconstruction of \nSouth Africa after apartheid, and the transformation of interpersonal ethics towards \ngreater respect and care for others. Thereafter, the article highlights four territories \nthat remain largely unexplored within the DRC in the past quarter of a century and \nargues for their future exploration. These trajectories could contribute to a deeper \ntransformation and conversion from the white Christianity historically tied to the \nDRC.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it