Random thought on the Tetragrammaton issue

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 20, 2008

Iyov has been following the recent Vatican directive reminding episcopal conferences “to remove all vocalizations of the Tetragrammaton” out of respect to Jews and Jewish tradition. He quotes from a recent letter by Bishop Serratelli (chair of the US Bishop’s Committee on Divine Worship:

“the name of almighty God expressed by the Hebrew Tetragrammaton and rendered in Latin by the word Dominus, is to be rendered into any given vernacular by a word equivalent in meaning.”

At the risk of being flippant, and with an extra helping of humility before our Creator, I wonder if I should continue to go by “ElShaddai” or if I should switch to the words equivalent in meaning, “God Almighty”.

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4 Comments

  1. Iyov
    Posted August 20, 2008 at 12:31 PM | Permalink

    I suggest that you switch your name to “The Dominator.”  Not only is it cognate to Dominus, but it will serve you well should you decide to take up a career in professional wrestling, or a la Jesse “The Body” Ventura, in politics.

  2. ElShaddai Edwards
    Posted August 20, 2008 at 4:03 PM | Permalink

    Iyov, I can assure you that politics is water to my oil. My brother Isaac is a Legislative Director for a U.S. Senator and that is enough political ground in one family.

    As for pro wrestling… uh, no.

  3. Traditional Life
    Posted August 21, 2008 at 2:55 PM | Permalink

    hey i think that if jesse ventura could be the govenern than anyone can do it!

  4. Richard
    Posted August 27, 2008 at 9:11 AM | Permalink

    I was surprised by the Vatican’s decision on this. I prefer to use Yahweh or YHWH because whilst God is Lord or LORD his personal name is Yahweh.

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