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'Amen',... in Hebrew, is one of a cluster from a root which signifies reliability, integrity and truth.... Our utterance of it is acknowledgment of God's 'Amen', which always goes before. The recognition of God's integrity and truthfulness, unswerving faithfulness in execution of his promises, is so central to Judaism's faith that 'Amen' may almost be taken as a name for God. We might miss this when we read, in the sixty-fifth chapter of Isaiah, that 'he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth', but the Hebrew here, if rendered literally, would be 'by the God Amen'.

Nicholas Lash

Nicholas Lash

Nicholas Lash

Born: April 6, 1934

Died: July 11, 2020 (aged 86)

Bio: Nicholas Langrishe Alleyne Lash was an English Roman Catholic theologian.

Known for:

Holiness, Speech and Silence (2004)
Believing three ways in one God (1992)
The beginning and the end of 'religion' (1996)
Theology on the Way to Emmaus (1986)
Theology for Pilgrims (2008)

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