{"id":860,"date":"2009-06-22T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T23:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=860"},"modified":"2009-08-28T16:41:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T23:41:41","slug":"two-birds-with-one-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Two Birds with One Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps, if I put my tongue in my cheek a little, the best solution is to call the Holy Spirit \u00e2\u20ac\u0153they\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. For some this will be understood as a singular \u00e2\u20ac\u0153they\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. But, to those who might object to the singular \u00e2\u20ac\u0153they\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Birds with One Stone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[70,93,92,94],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics","category-rants","tag-exegesis","tag-inclusive-language","tag-prescriptivism","tag-singular-they"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}