Bibliographic record
Abstract
Hans Kasdorf--friend, gifted man of God, and profound mission scholar--died in Fresno, California, on March 26, 2011. My first encounter with Hans Kasdorf occurred in the context of our church council in Bielefeld, Germany. Kasdorf was teaching in Germany and took the time to write a letter of recommendation for my studies at the Mennonite Brethren seminary in Fresno. The favor required strenuous persuasion on my part. The breadth of Kasdorf's perspective, his deep dedication to his work, and his historical and cultural understanding, along with his good word, made our family's time in Fresno possible. Kasdorf was born on July 27, 1928, in the village of Alexandrowka, in the Altai region of Siberia, close to the city of Slawgorod. The son of a Mennonite refugee family, he followed a path from Siberia through Moscow and north Germany, ending up in Santa Catarina, Brazil. He spent his childhood in the small German settlement of Waldheim, located in the Krauel mountains. The complicated circumstances of that journey--combined with the challenges of World War II and the difficulties of building a life in his new homeland--were not especially conducive to a standard education. Although he attended school, he did not own a book until he was 18 years old. Nonetheless, from the time that he began formal biblical and theological studies in Canada at the age of 21 until the end of his life, he was always learning and teaching. He was a brilliant man. Kasdorf's passions were directed to God and God's mission in the world. Following his marriage to Frieder Reimer in Canada (September 20, 1953) the young couple served as missionaries in Brazil. Here theory and practice were joined in service to the Christ and the church. In further studies in North America, Kasdorf devoted much energy to the subject of missions. His dissertation in 1976 focused on Gustav Warneck, the founder of German mission theology. (1) A second dissertation in 1984 explored a century of Mennonite Brethren missionary activity. (2) Kasdorf was a servant leader. Following many years of teaching at Fresno Pacific College, he taught mission studies at the Mennonite Brethren seminary in Fresno (1978-1993). From 1994 to 1998 he developed the mission studies department at the Freie Theologische Hochschule at Giessen. He held his students and colleagues in high regard, finding time for personal conversation, frequently in his home. Kasdorf had a global perspective. He was a welcome speaker at universities and colleges, seminaries and Bible schools. …
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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 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.038 | 0.034 |
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".