Name of all majesty

Name of all majesty. Timothy Dudley-Smith* (1926-2024). At Ruan Minor, Cornwall, in August 1979, the author drafted this text from notes made earlier that year during his reading of Walter de la Mare’s Collected Poems. These referred mainly to the metrical form of three of them, on one of which ‘this text came to be loosely modelled’. Headed simply ‘The Lord Jesus Christ’, it is a poetic exposition of the phrase ‘Jesus is Lord’, which ‘is said to be the earliest baptismal creed of the church: cf. Romans 10: 9, Philippians 2: 11, and 1 Corinthians 12: 3’ — from the notes in A House of Praise (2003, p. 426). The equivalent paragraphs in Lift Every Heart (1984) quote former Archbishop Michael...