Advent Calendar Dec. 7: Why Don't We Say "Handel and Jennens?"

It All Began With The Libretto of Charles Jennens, The Sine Qua Non of "Handel's" Messiah, Political Outsider, "Handel Nut," Benefactor, And Christian. He Wanted No Glory Or Money (He Had Money)

And with His stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53: 5) 

As a devout Anglican and believer in scriptural authority, Jennens intended to challenge advocates of Deism, who rejected the doctrine of divine intervention in human affairs.[14] Shaw describes the text as "a meditation of our Lord as Messiah in Christian thought and belief", and despite his reservatio…