Re: Inflecting Jesus Christ (was: Never violate a universal ...)

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> Christian Thalmann scripsit:
>
> > My ear tells me that it should be "Jesu Christi" in the genitive.
> > Google seems to concur.  I don't know whether that's grammatical,
> > though.
>
> de.wikipedia.org concurs also; the first Google example to come up is
> "Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage", the official name of
> the Mormons.  That translation of "latter-day" seems to miss a trick,
> however, since it suggests to me "of the last days", i.e. those just
> before the Second Coming, rather than simply an archaic form meaning "of
> (these later days".)  Comment from germanophones (allemannophones?) or
> LDS members?
The Swedish is _Jesu Kristi Kyrka av Sista Dagars Heliga_ lit "Jesus Christ's
Church of Last Days' Holy Ones". That sounds both odd and eschatological ...

The German definitely suggests "of the Last Days" to this non-native.

                                                    Andreas