We have difficulty with language, furthermore, because the language we have inherited was different from the one we now use, and we have not spent that much time learning to know the language of the past before we discard it. Furthermore, our vocabulary regarding call, ordination, and the authority of the pastoral office in relationship to the royal priesthood of believers has become obscured and troubled. We are suffering confusion to a great extent because of the loss of our common spiritual and theological language. The language of pastoral theology and the care of souls is predominantly the language of the personality and social sciences. We are becoming poorer and poorer. Similarly, much of the language of piety has been taken over by the language of baptistified charismatics. The language of the catechism, of hymnody, of the liturgy, and of Bible translations is in such flux that fewer and fewer learn it by heart.
Kenneth F. Korby. “The Pastoral Office and the Priesthood of Believers” in Lord Jesus Christ, Will You Not Stay: Essays in Honor of Ronald Feuerhahn on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by J. Bart Day, Jon D. Vieker et al. (Houston, Texas: The Feuerhahn Festschrift Committee, 2002); pp.333,334
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