Bibliographic record
Abstract
Hospitality is an ancient practice employed by the people of God which extends God’s loving welcome to the stranger. In post Christian Canada, where church attendance is waning and where Christian faith is viewed with suspicion, hospitality holds promise as a boundary breaking missional activity. While there is increasing interest in hospitality as practiced within churches and communities of hospitality, household hospitality has not been studied. This practical theology research project utilizes practice led research in the examination of Christian hospitality to strangers as practiced within a private household. Hermeneutic phenomenology is the methodological approach used to study the experiences of practitioners in order to create a thick description of the practice, and to identify emerging meanings from the practice. The hospitality of Jesus and the early church as found in Luke Acts provide the theological foundations for the practice, and theoretical contributions by Relational Cultural Theory ( deepen insights as to how mutuality and authentic relationships aid in human connection and growth. The findings of the research, theological underpinnings foun d in Luke Acts, and the theoretical contribution of RCT come together in theological reflection on the practice. Hospitality was found to be a practice that reflects the gospel and the kingdom and is essential to Christian discipleship, mission, and human flourishing. Central to hospitality is the welcome of a stranger, the provision of holistic care, and the movement from disconnection to connection. Hospitality is a practice that contributes to human healing, growth, and transformation. At its core, h ospi tality is grounded in God’s self giving love which is emulated for the sake of others.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".