Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation presents an incarnational theology and practice of ministry and, drawing on disability studies and crip theory, re-imagines an incarnational crip theology and practice of ministry through preaching the Word, administering the sacraments, and providing pastoral care. Incarnational theology challenges the Church to an honest and imaginative embracing of embodiment in all its created diversity, specifically disabled and crip bodies constricted by ableism. An interdisciplinary methodology brings incarnational and ecclesial theology into conversation with crip and disability studies to construct an incarnational crip practical theology of ministry. The specific context of The United Church of Canada shows a history of work in disability theology and provides a lens for examining collaborative ministry. This thesis uses the incarnational ecclesiological work of Bonhoeffer to posit that the church embodies Christ as and in community and that Christ is in solidarity with humanity. Incarnational theology embraces the goodness of embodiment and the gift of diversity, and disability theologians contribute to understanding these concepts through disabled and crip bodies. The thesis employs several disability theologians to open a conversation about leadership in the church drawing on the resources of both theological and disability and crip studies, illustrating the value of this critical correlational method. Drawing this out, the thesis focuses on preaching, sacraments and pastoral care to construct an alternative expression of a crip theology and practice of ministry. Regarding the proclamation of the Word, crip concepts of disclosure and performance enrich the understanding and expression of testimony and collaborative preaching. Regarding the sacraments of baptism and communion, the contributions of crip liturgical time and space enrich the theology and practice of these rites shaped by crip bodies. Finally, crip care webs and access intimacy help imagine an alternative model of pastoral care that shows how we can encounter Christ as we recognize each other’s needs and appropriately care for each other. The research has implications for the construction of a disability theology of ministry and the role of communities of faith and denominations in its practice.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".