There is no hope without Them! The world is having great influence on the minds of people. A very gracious reader sent me an email about this post and I responded with a little verbal disquisition. I find the capitalization lovely and timelessly traditional.
God is not a just Our Father but He is the creator of all things and He is all powerful and all mighty and He loves us absolutely. It is my joy to do so. He also says that the great majority of standard Bible translations do not capitalize pronouns referring to deity. Read More. Leave a comment.
Jason Button on April 9, at am. Jeremy Patterson on April 9, at pm. Mark L Ward Jr on April 9, at pm. CharlieJ on April 9, at pm. I vote no to capitalizing pronouns, yes to capitalizing the noun Trinity. Dustin B. Mark L Ward Jr on April 13, at pm. Hymns like that are often written with an older feel anyway, so capitalizing at least the personal pronouns would seem to fit. Hmmm… I bet good Christian usage guides would have something to say about that.
My feeling is that the lower-case would be better at this point—for the same reasons given in the post about pronouns. It seems like a superstition. Keith Duff on October 23, at am. Mark L Ward Jr on October 23, at am. We have an embarrassment of riches in our English Bible translations. We should make use of it. Richard H.
Mark Ward on February 19, at am. Donnie Manis on May 24, at pm. Mark Ward on May 24, at pm. Excellent point. I may just add this into the post. Debi Snider on November 21, at am.
Thank you for supplying this post. Very helpful Reply. Daniel on March 17, at pm. Mark Ward on March 17, at pm. A great point! David Coffin on July 5, at am. Just curious Reply. Mark Ward on July 10, at pm. David: tradition.
Travis Smith of Bexar on July 23, at pm. Lorraine W. Sutherland on November 20, at am. Brian Kelly on January 16, at am. Sutherland summarizes her point with two words. Mark Ward on January 16, at am. Sasha Adkins on January 20, at am. Mark Ward on January 20, at am. But I wish some of the hornets would use argument rather than invective. Pat biglane on January 20, at pm.
Judi Mack on January 28, at pm. Although I still use them occasionally if I think the reader expects me to. But now I see it both ways. One of the main guidelines in editing is that the document should be internally consistent. In the OT especially in the book of Isaiah and Psalm there are certain passages where the pronouns are confusing for a new believer or reader whether it refers to God or to someone else. Just like to give respect or not give respect, to choose life or death.
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Surely there is an answer. What is a style guide? CMOS says 8. NOSM says p97 : Use lower case for pronouns referring to God where the reference is clear, unless the author specifies otherwise. ASM says p : In the past, the capital letter assigned to God was often extended to the attendant pronouns … but this is now less common. What CWMS does say is this: [Capitalizing] gives a book, at best, a dated, Victorian feel, and at worst, an aura of irrelevance to modern readers.
Summary Yes, the major style guides prefer that personal pronouns referring to God are not capitalized. The most important factor in any editing decision is consistency. What do you think? And pretty soon your great-granddaughter is slicing off the end of the ham. It does mean that the ad fontes , sola scriptura , semper reformanda impulse of Reformation Christianity makes me suspicious when two very smart people who love the Bible give opposite reasons for maintaining the same capitalization tradition namely clarity and respect.
When we have two genuinely valuable things that stand in tension—like clear communication to all English speakers vs. But if clarity and tradition truly conflict—as I think they now do in most places where deity pronouns have usually been capitalized—you can guess which one this Protestant thinks should win.
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