Aug. 6th, 2007

I'm sorry to say that some new hymn books alter these words for the benefit of those who can't understand 'consubstantial'; a minor campaign of civil disobedience when faced with the weaker new versions seems called for.

Rowan Williams, Tokens of Trust p. 71.


This is in the context of discussing 'being of one substance with the Father' or `of one being with the father' and the doxology 'Consubstantial, co-eternal/While unending ages run.'

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