Comments on: Keeping up With the Jones’ http://blog.trinityaustin.com/2009/07/13/keeping-up-with-the-jones%e2%80%99/ Cenobitic Monasticism is Overrated Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:04:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Scott http://blog.trinityaustin.com/2009/07/13/keeping-up-with-the-jones%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-7609 Scott Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:07:57 +0000 http://blog.trinityaustin.com/?p=193#comment-7609 While no one it seems would encourage our laity to use a bible which is only a paraphrasing of an authorized translation.....our Commision on Worship has and is doing this with our liturgy. The latin version of the response being 'Et cum spiritu tuo', one is prone to ask where in the heck did 'also' come into play and 'where is the Spirit?' But it seems since our Commision on Worship didn't perhaps we should be asking ourselves if this 'illegal substitution' is also forbidden in our Formula when it talks about rites like this as being not a rite of indifference but rather as a rite which we should treat as being one forbidden by God since it is after all 'designed to give the impression that our religion does not differ greatly from that of the papists' (Formula SD X Tappert 611). While no one it seems would encourage our laity to use a bible which is only a paraphrasing of an authorized translation…..our Commision on Worship has and is doing this with our liturgy. The latin version of the response being ‘Et cum spiritu tuo’, one is prone to ask where in the heck did ‘also’ come into play and ‘where is the Spirit?’

But it seems since our Commision on Worship didn’t perhaps we should be asking ourselves if this ‘illegal substitution’ is also forbidden in our Formula when it talks about rites like this as being not a rite of indifference but rather as a rite which we should treat as being one forbidden by God since it is after all ‘designed to give the impression that our religion does not differ greatly from that of the papists’ (Formula SD X Tappert 611).

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