Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0171; How to Speak the Lord's Language
- Episode Number
- S0171
- Episode
- How to Speak the Lord's Language
- Producing Organization
- Southern Educational Communications Association
- South Carolina Educational Television Network
- Contributing Organization
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/514-599z02zv9f
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- Description
- Episode Description
- The Episcopal Church had been controversially working on a major revision of the Book of Common Prayer for a decade. The issue, as Mr. Buckley phrases it, "affects Episcopalians and their fellow travelers theologically, but also the whole English-speaking world culturally," because of the beauty of the Prayer Book's language and its influence on four centuries of English literature. Not surprisingly to anyone who has followed liturgical disputes, today's discussion is matched in heatedness only by shows on the Middle East. HW: "Instead of saying that our Lord was 'conceived by the Holy Ghost,' the new version of the Creed says that he was 'conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit.' There's nothing in the Greek to justify the insertion of the word 'power' so far as I can tell...." LM: "Now, the power of the Holy Spirit... is from the Gospels: 'The power of the Spirit shall overshadow you.' " HW: "Yes, sir, it is, but it's not in the Nicene Constantinopolitan Creed." LM: "It is, after all, a translation of that creed, and the 'power of the Holy Spirit' is a translation." HW: "It's an adaptation, sir, not a translation." Currently there is only a digitized transcript available for this episode.
- Series Description
- The television series Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. was a venue for debate and discussion on political, social, and philosophical issues with experts of the day. Firing Line broadcasts from 1966 through March 1971 were produced and syndicated by WOR-TV, a commercial station in New York, but some of them were also broadcast on noncommercial television stations. Starting in April 1971, Firing Line broadcasts were produced by the Southern Educational Communications Association, an arm of South Carolina Educational Television. Hoover Institution Library & Archives' Firing Line collection guide can be found at: https://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/firing-line.
- Date
- 1975-01-13
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- Episcopal Church. Book of common prayer (1979); Language, style; Episcopal Church. Book of common prayer; Versions
- Rights
- Copyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Guest: Malania, Leo
Guest: Weatherby, Harold L.
Guest: Shattuck, Gardiner
Guest: Lassard, Suzannah
Guest: Morales, Frank
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.413 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 1:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0171; How to Speak the Lord's Language,” 1975-01-13, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 13, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-599z02zv9f.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0171; How to Speak the Lord's Language.” 1975-01-13. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 13, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-599z02zv9f>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0171; How to Speak the Lord's Language. Boston, MA: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-599z02zv9f