Gerald H. Anderson with John Roxborogh, John M. Prior, and Christoffer H. Grundmann, Witness to World Christianity: The International Association for Mission Studies, 1972-2012
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Abstract
Gerald H. Anderson with John Roxborogh, John M. Prior, and Christoffer H. Grundmann, Witness to World Christianity: The International Association for Mission Studies, 1972-2012. New Haven, CT: OMSC Publications, 2012. Pp. 227. $15.00, paper. Unity in Mission: Theological Reflections on the Pilgrimage of Mission. Edited by Mitzi J. Budde and Don Thorsen. Faith and Order Commission Theological Series (National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA). New York and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2013. Pp. 345. $24.95, paper. These two books represent labors of love. Witness to World Christianity is a history of the International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS), the broadest network (theological and geographic) of scholars studying mission and world Christianity. Anderson masterfully takes the reader through its founding and each of its meetings, leading up to the most recent in Toronto, in 2012. The text is supplemented with photos of key IAMS members through the years. As a history of a scholarly society, it is a surprisingly interesting and genuinely absorbing narrative. Unity in Mission is an edited volume emanating from the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Budde and Thorsen have assembled a wide range of essays on topics from biblical reflections to personal journeys. These papers were given over a four-year period, beginning in 2008, in a study group led by the NCC's Faith and Order Commission. I he content reflects a variety of ecclesiastical perspectives--including Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal--and represents some of the best thinking on unity in mission from an ecumenical perspective. In a sense, the two books arrive at a similar destination from different starting points. Witness is about mission scholars who come to see world Christianity as a global reality, while Unity is about church leaders who see mission as a unifying factor in the global church. Both books have to grapple with the changing demographics of global Christianity. Less than a decade after the IAMS was organized, the number of Christians in the Global South (Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania) surpassed that in the Global North (Europe, North America). While these changes had been underway since the earliest decades of the twentieth century, the IAMS scholars literally witnessed the rise of world Christianity. Part of their struggle has been reconciling the discipline of missiology with that of world Christianity studies. …
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.041 | 0.018 |
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".