[unspun]

YEah. On the flip side “master” often means “Teacher” and that’s how I thought of it in this context. We called the teachers “masters” at my horrible prep school.

Such terms as the above, as with "father," "vicar," and "primate," are very, very odd, in a church which would recognize the total primacy of Jesus Christ (THE image of the Invisible God) as the other current thread asserts.

I don't choose to beat up anyone for his religious particulars (and am not a fan some of the Reformers doctrines that also draw outside the lines) but I do choose to accept the truth from God's perspective, no one "getting in His/my light," whether it pleases any mere man, or not.

[Mad Dawg]

Well to each his own oddity. I don't exactly see how vicar would be odd (heck, I once held that title -- in a mission in Mississippi. All it means is your somebody's representative. It's related to Vice - as in vice president, I hasten to add ...

And you do know there isn't some group somewhere in the Vatican with "Magisterium" on the office door.

How do you feel about "pastor"?