Reimagining the Church in Africa: Toward an Ecclesiology of Action
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Ecclesia in Africa, by John Paul II, becomes an important document for the Church in Africa as it attempts to delineate the self-understanding and mission of the Church in Africa. Through the exhortation, the notion of the Church as God’s family is acknowledged and considered as an expression of the nature of the Church, particularly appropriate to Africa. The Church as God’s family has dominated the contemporary ecclesiological debates in Africa. However, epistemic challenges at the heart of this ecclesiology prevent it from becoming a relevant and credible contextual ecclesiology in Africa. This thesis offers a paradigm shift from the ecclesiology of family to ecclesia actionis, which sees the Church as action and in action. Through Eucharistic solidarity, as its Christological underpinning, the new ecclesiology becomes paramount in developing a new perspective in economics from the Church’s viewpoint, capable of addressing the problem of poverty and underdevelopment in Africa.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 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) | 0.002 | 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".