Succinct, shorthand, (possibly) Latin word similar to "ala"
I'm trying to find the world that one would use to denote a connection to a person's idea. I'm writing a sentence where I want to make a simple connection to Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the hands of an angry God". What I have is
it is God holding us over the flames, ala Jonathan Edwards
but I would like to find a better word than ala
for making the connective idea.
I presume that your ala is a nonstandard spelling of à la, a somewhat informal phrase taken directly from the French with the same meaning: ‘in the same style, manner, sense of.’ While one might find the expression written with an unaccented a, writing it together is a bit beyond the pale.
I would write:
It is God holding us over the flames, in the Jonathan Edward sense.
Or if the name or phrase makes an attributive use unwieldy:
While for many situations the conventional assumptions usually employed in economic analyses as, for example, strong rationality in the sense of JOHN VON NEUMANN and OSKAR MORGENSTERN (1948), are not appropriate or even rejected, the basic structure of the model remains the same. — Gebhard Kirchgässer, Homo Œconomicus, 2008.