Try to imagine what would happen if there were no names. And God knew that, and he began the world by naming things. So that’s number one. Its not just creation that comes from names, but also control. Leadership Education at Duke DivinityContact Us | Privacy Policy | Duke Divinity School, Kelly Brown Douglas: After the election, faith leaders must fill the vacuum of moral leadership, Dave Odom: Concealing the past doesn't undo it, Anthea Butler: In a season of reckonings, forgiveness is not forgetting, John Fea: Evangelicals may vote the same in 2020 as in 2016, but we understand them much better now. All of these tales continue this belief that there is power in knowing names and naming. “Hello, Pastor John. By the way, just a little passing comment here, I would just encourage parents to think hard when they name their children, to give them names that have meaning, that they can grow into. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. So one way to think about it is that the name of Jesus goes hand in hand with the fame of Jesus. God creates the world by naming “light,” “day,” “night” and “sky.” God called Abram and Jacob and then named them Abraham and Israel -- their names marking a dramatic shift in life’s trajectory, a new orientation, a new mission, a new way of life bound in faith to the God who named them. There is power in the names - the labels - that you declare upon yourself and power behind the names and labels that people place upon you. Sigh. So just as Jared said in his question at the beginning, the name refers to the essence, the defining reality of the person. This was the tension of Rumpelstiltskin, where the Miller’s daughter can only escape from captivity if she discovers Rumpelstiltskin name. That person might have the education and experience, but their name is the precursor to everything they do and they may need to work ten times as hard to get beyond that. Rather than becoming lost in the staid nouns of our denominational names, the hope for the church is energized when we take on the active verb of “giving name to” those who are lost, hopeless, disenfranchised, broken. This prelude, sets the discussion for the next part which how names construct who we are. Here again the act of naming carries with it a sense of power, of hegemony. Later we find the influence of the word in the Bible. When he quotes that text, Paul puts Jesus’s name in there: “At the name of Jesus every knee should bow.” The Old Testament says that every knee is going to bow to Yahweh. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. There are no designations, not even numbers. With so many people online, most are pushed into creating new names to identify themselves. Romans 1:5: “We have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his, Romans 15:9: “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your, Romans 10:13: “For ‘everyone who calls on the. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! God creates the world by naming “light,” “day,” “night” and “sky.”. That’s why I gave myself a name with a meaning. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. More recently Patrick Rothfuss’s ‘The Name Of The Wind’ series explores this belief that true magic is in learning the true names of things. No beginning, no ending, no becoming, no changing. (Matthew 6:9) “After this manner therefore pray ye:Our Father which art in heaven,Hallowed be thy name.” Many Middle-Eastern cultures, from the Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Akkadian, et al all tell stories the power of the naming. Jared’s real question, my real question, is, Why? From a mythic perspective, this quasi-magical power of naming has left its mark through folklore and stories. In the New Testament, existence starts with the power of the word and naming. We continue to actively name the universe. I have a question for you that my wife and I have wondered about for a while now. The fact that in the Old Testament God went out of his way to make a connection between someone’s God-given name and the essentially important thing about that person is significant. I am true. An increasingly egalitarian society has simplified and dropped many honorifics. Francis Bacon popularised the saying ‘knowledge is power’ and there is power in naming things. But why this remarkably frequent reference to the name? Through His acceptance, we are given new identities. “No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.” Or Sarai changed to Sarah: “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I am reliable.” Every time you say L-O-R-D, all caps, Yahweh, remember that. But what if my wife is more capable and more spiritually mature than I am? How would you get their attention? For example, a teacher who sees a particular name on a roll sheet at the beginning of the year may form an immediate opinion that would be hard to shake. Sometimes in the Bible, God changed the names of the people He called. The very act of “giving name to” just might be what keeps the church alive. How do we feel about this fragmentation in the names that define us?
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