What's In A Lord?

August 23, 2006

What's In A Lord?

Fr. Robert Hart has some good comments over at his blog on Confessing Jesus as Lord--within the Church and before the world.

A comment: Has the word Lord has been gutted and rendered archaic, and what does it mean for modern Christiansom the West? Further, as far as speaking to the culture goes, the early Christians would have been better off avoiding the word Lord in connection with Jesus, since it competed directly with Caesar, causing confusion, no?

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Aug 23, 2006 3:33:05 PM

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NT Wright (among others) notes that calling Jesus Lord by first century Christians was precisely putting Caesar in his place. Jesus is Lord in the way that Caesar is not. I think the Lordship of Jesus needs to be emphasized even more today. I tell my boys that (like it or not) Jesus is one day going to be revealed as the absolute sovereign prince of the universe--including this lovely dustball of a planet--so they had better come to some fruitful accomodation with that fact...

Posted by: Gene Godbold | August 23, 2006 at 04:50 PM

Outstanding collection of Wright's work on this and other topics can be found at www.ntwrightpage.com/.

Posted by: Stuart Koehl | August 24, 2006 at 11:57 AM

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