Theological College New Name

ENGLAND

ANGELIC

SCHOOL OF

THEOLOGY

News fresh in. We have just heard from London Theological Seminary that from April 1 this year it is to be known by a new name. A spokesman, Mr Steven Nathan John said,

'Far be it from us to go around changing names of things to confuse people but LTS is a bit of a mouthful and rather unmemorable. It is also often confused with LST and STL. Another factor was the new law recently passed in America that all tertiary academic institutions must be called schools (the name college being reserved for secondary ones). So we have come up with 'England Angelic School of Theology'. The change is minimal in that two of the original letters remain while the first is replaced with two new letters. The chief advantage is that we can now be referred to monosyllabically as EAST. Not only is the acronym memorable; it is geographically significant. We're on the south eastern fringe of a landmass dominated by the Welsh and the Scots and I like to think of us as a gateway into the rest of Britain, Ireland and beyond (if there is anything).'

Apparently there was some discussion over the second part of the name. A member of the board from Suffolk had suggested East Anglian School of Theology but the London base was felt to be against this. Several Korean students would be happy with England Asian (or even East Asian) School of Theology but the name doesn't fully reflect the mix present in the college. Mr John himself who helped with the name change had suggested England Affinity School of Theology. The words Augustinain and Anselmian were also in the frame at one point. Angelic was chosen as the students are being trained to be messengers and (in their own opinion) are quite an angelic bunch anyway.