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Record W850425295 · doi:10.51644/zlvi3065

Life at the fringes: the biblical agenda of Sojourners community

2005· article· en· W850425295 on OpenAlex
Anita Jantz

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Bibliographic record

VenueConsensus · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligion, Society, and Development
Canadian institutionsWilfrid Laurier University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFaithRevelationOpposition (politics)SociologyStatus quoAlienMandateAestheticsLiminalityLawReligious studiesPolitical scienceTheologyPhilosophyPolitics

Abstract

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Such a simple consequence of biblical faith, however, practiced in any society of privilege, is necessarily going to bring about unavoidable discomfiture.Wallis describes this: "The church, when most obedient to its calling, is a stranger, an exile, an alien, seeking to sing the Lord's song in a strange land.Biblical faith is subversive.The church can only provide a radical opposition when it defines itself outside of the system by being firmly rooted in the revelation of God's Word.this makes the Christian community a countersign to the status quo, a scandal to the established order." 2 Analysis of Sojourners magazine and the community that nurtures it, is the focus of this paper.Perusal of some 20 years (1982-2004) of Sojourners, with an attempt to highlight the topics covered in monthly feature articles, will be the basis on which to discuss the nature and effectiveness of its mission and mandate.The basic question being considered is this, How successful is Sojourners' experiment of "life at the fringes," as "alien" peacemakers, "exiled" voices for the poor and "scandalous" followers of Jesus?Wallis has made some very pointed and unequivocal statements about what it means to be a Christian in the world, how this stance must be, by its very nature, liminal (at the margins or outside the system 3 ) and that the church must be rebuilt 4 into something that again resembles faithfulness.The influences that brought this about are the foundation on which Wallis' mission and ministry is built.Following will be a brief description of the theological elements of Jim Wallis' mission and passion for the gospel; the influences that converged to form a particular interpretation of the teachings of Jesus and the resulting imperatives for faithful living.Second, a description of the mission of Sojourners will be offered, in terms of the issues addressed over a 20 year period (1982 -2004); everything from injustices of oppressive governments to the things of ecology, economics, globalization and health.Third, radical discipleship as outlined within the pages of the magazine will be considered in these ways: as personal response, as community response, as partnership with the church and as cultural critique.Fourth, a careful look at sexuality and homosexuality in particular, will raise some significant issues in terms of justice and "life on the fringes."Finally, in considering the overall effectiveness of Sojourners' radical witness to society, the focal points of community and worship will bracket the experience of this small but insistent group of dissidents and radicals.14 Consensus

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.063
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.090
GPT teacher head0.347
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it