What's in a Name?

A few I’ve run across recently…

Popular Name: 95 Theses   

Full Name: "Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences"

Editorial: Luther was not the first to get annoyed with indulgences. The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Popular Name: The Declaration of Independence

Full Name: The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (popularly known as the Declaration of Independence from an early date)

Editorial: Hot dogs, fireworks, freedom.

Popular Name: Darwin’s Origin of Species

Full Name: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (Name officially changed to The Origin of Species for the sixth edition in 1872.)

Editorial: You can see how “social Darwinism” is not just a mental mash-up, but a brutal reality from the beginning. 

Popular Name: The CPA

Full Name: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement, a.k.a. The Naivasha Agreement. Including the Machakos Protocol, The Protocol on Power-Sharing, The Agreement on Wealth Sharing, The Protocol on the Resolution to the Conflict in the Abyei Area, The Protocol on the Resolution of the Conflicts in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States, The Agreement on Security Arrangements, The Permanent Ceasefire and Security Arrangements Implementation Modalities and Appendices, and The Implementation Modalities and Global Implementation Matrix and Appendices--most of which were signed separately over the course of three years.

Editorial: Khartoum violated them all.

Popular Name: Dr. Strangelove

Full Name: Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Editorial: Ok, I think you probably knew that one already.

Popular Name: Articles of Confederation 

Full Name: The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union

Editorial: Perpetual is still ambitious, but the Union has lasted longer than the Articles. Huzzah!

Popular Name: The Bible

Full Name: The Hebrew Scriptures (Torah/Law/Pentateuch + The Prophets + The Writings) and The New Covenant (The four Gospels (i.e. Good News) + The Acts of the Apostles + Pauline Epistles + General Epistles + The Apocalypse (i.e. Revelation) of John)

Editorial: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."  John 3.16-17

- John