El Shaddai Institute of Applied Theology

www.elshaddai.org

 

Now is this the one with Professor Amy Grant?*




Tom Nixon


*A joke for anyone who has followed contemporary Christian music.

 

Aw c'mon, the Bible course titles alliterate: Marvels of Matthew, Gems from Genesis, etc.
I bet your seminary doesn't do that.

 

iamnotsuperstitiousiamnotsuperstitiousiamnotsuperstitious damn! I can't help it. I DO wish people wouldn't use the Names for the commercial ventures!

 

I'm with you. I just hate that. It's not superstition, it's reverence. This came up in my sunday school class a couple weeks ago, and I pointed out to them that for Christians, the usability of the Name of Jesus in prayer, etc., only underlines the terrible sacredness of what routinely in Christian bibles is translated as LORD in little capital letters. Only through the Incarnation is a Christian on a first-name basis, so to speak, with God. Even in the otherwise acceptable and eloquent Jerusalem Bible (the RC one, not the bilingual Koren Tanakh) and its revision, the New Jerusalem Bible, the use of the common academic vocalization of the Name strikes me as showing off at best, tacky at least, and offensive at worst.