From nauplion@charm.net Mon Sep 4 10:18:54 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA116508 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:18:53 -0700 Received: from fellspt.charm.net (root@fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA12297 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:18:53 -0700 Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-052.charm.net [209.143.116.52]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA12302 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:18:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39B3D91E.66EA0EAF@charm.net> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 13:17:22 -0400 From: Diana Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,el,tr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: God in the Declaration of Independence References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit James Butrica wrote: > >In today's New York Times Michael Novak writes in an op-ed piece entitled > >"The Founders and the Torah" (p. A17): > > > >"Most historians lazily say that the founders were Deists, because they > >did not use Christian names for God, like Trinity and Savior and Redeemer. > >They miss the crucial point. Three names for God in the Declaration -- > >Creator, Judge and Providence, are unmistakably Jewish names for God. This > >language did not come from the Greeks or Romans." > > And are these names used in the New Testament as well as the Old? CREATOR Romans 1: 25 -- te: ktisei para ton ktisanta 1 Peter 4:19 -- tou theou pisto: ktiste: JUDGE -- many NT references though usually as a verb 2 Tim 4:8 -- o kyrios o dikaios krith:s Hebrews 12:23 -- kai krite: theo: panto:n PROVIDENCE Acts 24:2 -- dia te:s se:s pronoias It would be nice if someone could search the Septuagint & NT to see how OT terms are translated and how they appear in the NT. My computer with the Septuagint & NT programs with search facility bootlegged from a nun died. DW > > James Lawrence Peter Butrica > Department of Classics > Memorial University > St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 > (709) 737-7914 .