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		<title>Two Birds with One Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just stumbled across the blog of Peter Kirk, who knows his stuff when it comes to Biblical languages. There&#8217;s been a bit of an uptick in the Evangelical blogosphere discussion of gendered language in Scripture and liturgy, and Mr. Kirk offers a wonderful suggestion, sure to make explode the heads of both patriarchists and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just stumbled across the <a href="http://www.qaya.org/blog/">blog of Peter Kirk</a>, who knows his stuff when it comes to Biblical languages.  There&#8217;s been a bit of an uptick in the Evangelical blogosphere discussion of gendered language in Scripture and liturgy, and Mr. Kirk offers a <a href="http://www.qaya.org/blog/?p=1159">wonderful suggestion</a>, sure to make explode the heads of both patriarchists and prescriptivists alike:</p>
<blockquote><p>Perhaps, if I put my tongue in my cheek a little, the best solution is to call the Holy Spirit “they”. For some this will be understood as a singular “they”. But, to those who might object to the singular “they” or insist that it carries nuances of plurality, I point out the ancient Christian tradition of the sevenfold Spirit, based on Isaiah 11:2 and repeated references in Revelation (1:4, 3:1, 4:5, 5:6) to the seven Spirits of God. So there should be no objection to using an apparently plural pronoun to refer to them.</p></blockquote>
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