Writing Organized Faith Articles? A Quick Intro To Capitalizing Words

When quoting a judgement or passage from the Bible, you lot must type the words exactly, adhering to capitalization, spacing, judgement or paragraph indentions, together with punctuation. Here is a quick agency guide on when to capitalize specific words, peculiarly if you lot are writing articles for faith-focused magazines or websites.

RULE # 1: CHURCH

Capitalize the give-and-take "church" when it refers to:

1) Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 specific church building denomination every bit a whole or a specific local church: Roman Catholic Church, The Protestant Christian Church, First Assembly of God Church.

2) As purpose of a recognized get upward or title: The prayer grouping met at St. Michael's
Church.


Lowercase the give-and-take "church" when it refers to:

1) The entire trunk of Christians, globally or all through time: We pray at our church building every Dominicus evening.

2) Clerical, instead of secular, government: Members felt the changes farther separated the church building together with state.

3) The Christian faith: He sang inwards the choir at the church.

4) Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 edifice used for communal worship: Our church building was built inwards 1972.

5) Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 grouping of Christians making upward ane church building or parish: He became a fellow member of this church building end year.

6) A grouping of Christians inwards whatever nation or city: Julia flew to New York to watch the church building at Center Street.

RULE # 2: TITLES OF INDIVIDUALS

1) Title first, thence person's amount name:

• Bishop Terry Blake
• Msgr. Brian Jones
• Fr. Andrew Schanpp
• Sr. Betty White
• Dr. Stephen Hills

2) When referring to the Holy Father, occupation Pope Benedict XVI or Pope Benedict. Afterwards, you lot tin occupation simply Pope Benedict, Benedict XVI, or the pope.

3) Lowercase "pope" or "popes" when you lot occupation the give-and-take inwards a full general way: Over the years popes accept blessed us amongst proficient news.

RULE # 3: NAMES OF PLACES AND STRUCTURES

1) Capitalize the next words when you lot occupation them every bit purpose of an official name. Lowercase non-official words.

• The Diocese of Fairfax was closed.
• The diocese was closed.
• The Vatican library was closed.
• The library was closed.
• St. Michael's Church was closed.
• The church building was closed.

RULE # 4: NAMES OF DIVINE BEINGS

1) Capitalize the names of divine beings, no thing if the organized faith is monotheistic or polytheistic:

• God 
• Jesus 
• Jehovah 
• Yahweh 
• Allah
• Satan (the give-and-take "devil" is lowercase)

2) Capitalize the dissimilar names for God:

• the Almighty 
• the Lord 
• Son of God 
• the Trinity
• the Holy Spirit 

3) Capitalize personal pronouns when you lot refer to God, Jesus, together with the Holy Spirit:

The passion of God appears inwards all of us, because God sent His alone begotten Son into our basis thence that nosotros may accept the adventure to alive through Him.

RULE # 5: NAMES OF THE BIBLE

1) Capitalize the names together with variations of the Bible together with religious industrial plant of other faiths:

• Bible 
• the Law 
• Scripture 
• the Revised Standard Version
• Quran Sutra

2) Lowercase the describing word shape of Bible together with Scripture:

• biblical 
• scriptural

3) Capitalize the names of books of the Bible. In almost cases, lowercase the give-and-take "book" together with capitalize the words "Gospel" together with "Epistle":

• Exodus
• the volume of Exodus 
• Mark
• the Gospel of Mark
• Galatians 
• the Epistle of Galatians 
• the Psalms 
• a psalm
• Acts
• the Acts of the Apostles 

4) Lowercase  the give-and-take "gospel" when you lot occupation it every bit a substantive or an describing word to refer to "the proficient news": Catholics must learn the gospel message to the masses.

RULE # 6: NAMES OF RELIGIONS

1) Capitalize the names of major religions together with denominations: Christianity, Christian Protestantism, Greek Orthodox, Catholicism, Muslim.

2) Capitalize the substantive variations of both Pentecostal together with Charismatic. However, lowercase the describing word variation of these words:.

• teachings of a Pentecostal 
• a pentecostal follower
• the prayer agency of a Charismatic 
• charismatic service group

RULE # 7: DATES

Use the era classifications B.C. (before Christ) together with A.D. (anno Domini, inwards the twelvemonth of our Lord) instead of B.C.E. (before the mutual era) together with C.E. (of the mutual era).

** Note that B.C. follows the year. A.D. precedes the year.

• 1150 B.C. 
• A.D. 79.

Many publications adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style for composing religious articles. In roughly cases the publication powerfulness accept its ain household agency which conforms to a dissimilar writing style.

Please learn out comments and/or corrections.

Sincerely,

Brian Scott

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