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Capitalization of Common Religious Terms. The following terms should be capitalized as displayed below. This list is taken from The Christian Writer's Manual of Style, Updated and Expanded Edition. General Editor Robert Hudson. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004, pp. 121–32.

 

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a devil

a Gentile

a high priest

a holy God

a patriarch

a psalm

Aaronic priesthood

Aaronide

Abba

abomination of desolation

Abrahamic covenant

Abraham's bosom

Abraham's side

Achaemenid

Adonai

Advent season

Agabah

agape

age of grace

agnosticism

Ahiram Inscription

almighty God

Alpha and Omega

amillenarian

amillennial

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amillennialism

amillennialist

an Eastern Orthodox church

ancient Near East

ancient Near Eastern

Ancient of Days

angel

angel (cap if theophany)

angel of the Lord (cap if theophany)

Anglican

annunciation, the (the event)

Annunciation, the (the holiday)

anointed Savior

anointing of the sick

ante-Christian

ante-Nicene fathers

antediluvian

anti-Catholic

antichrist (the general spirit)

Antichrist (the person)

anti-Christian

anti-God

anti-Semitism

anti-Trinitarian

antichrist

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antichurch

antilegomena

apocalyptic

apocryphal

apostle Paul

apostle Peter

Apostle to the Gentiles

Apostles' Creed

apostolic

apostolic fathers (the men)

Apostolic Fathers, the (the group of writings)

apostolic age

apostolic benediction

apostolic council

apostolic faith

Arabah

Aramaean

archangel

archbishop of Canterbury (but Archbishop Smith)

ark of the covenant

ark of the testimony

Arminian

Arminianism

Ascension Day

Athanasian Creed

atheism

atheist

Augsburg Confession

 

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Baal

baalism

baby Jesus

Babylonian captivity

Babylonian Empire

battle of Armageddon

beatific vision

beatification

beatitude

bedouin (sing. and pl)

Beelzebub

Beelzebul

Begaa

Being

Bible school

biblical

bidding prayer

bishop of Rome (but Bishop Jones)

blessed name

Blessed Virgin

blood of Christ

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book of Genesis

book of Exodus

book of Leviticus

book of Numbers

book of Deuteronomy

book of Joshua

book of Judges

book of Ruth

book of 1 Samuel

book of 2 Samuel

book of 1 Kings

book of 2 Kings

book of 1 Chronicles

book of 2 Chronicles

book of Ezra

book of Nehemiah

book of Esther

book of Job

book of Psalms

book of Proverbs

book of Ecclesiastes

book of Song of Songs

book of Isaiah

book of Jeremiah

book of Lamentations

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book of Ezekiel

book of Daniel

book of Hosea

book of Joel

book of Amos

book of Obadiah

book of Jonah

book of Micah

book of Nahum

book of Habakkuk

book of Zephaniah

book of Haggai

book of Zechariah

book of Malachi

book of Matthew

book of Mark

book of Luke

book of John

book of Acts

book of Romans

book of 1 Corinthians

book of 2 Corinthians

book of Galatians

book of Ephesians

book of Philippians

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book of Colossians

book of 1 Thessalonians

book of 2 Thessalonians

book of 1 Timothy

book of 2 Timothy

book of Titus

book of Philemon

book of Hebrews

book of James

book of 1 Peter

book of 2 Peter

book of 1 John

book of 2 John

book of 3 John

book of Jude

book of Revelation

Book of Life

book of the covenant

book of the law

Book of Truth

brazen altar

Bread of Life

brotherhood of man

bulla

bullae

burnt offering

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Calvary

Calvinist

Calvinistic

Calvinistism

canon law

canonical

Canonical hours

canonization

catechumen

catholic

Catholic church, a (the building)

Catholic Church, the (the Roman Catholic Church)

Catholic Epistles (James, et al.)

Catholicism

Celestial City

cereal offering

charismatic

charismatic church

charismatic movement

cherub

cherubim

chief priest

Chief Shepherd

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child Jesus

children of Israel

chosen people

Christ

Christ child

Christen

christening

Christian

Christian Era

Christian socialism

christianize

christianizeization

Christianlike

Christlike

Christlikeness

Christmas Day

Christmas Eve

Christmastide

christocentrism

christological

Christology

christophany

church, the (body of Christ)

church (building)

church (service)

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church age

church and state

church father

church fathers

church in America

church invisible

church militant

Church of England

Church of Rome

church triumphant

church universal

church visible

City of David

co-regency

Code of Hammurabi

College of Cardinals

commandment

Communion (sacrament)

compline

confirmation

Council of Trent

Counter-Reformation

Covenant

covenant of grace

covenant of works

creator God

crown

Crucified One, the (as name; lc as descriptor)

cupbearer

 

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Daniel's Seventieth Week

Davidic covenant

Davidic law

day hours

Day of Atonement

day of grace

day of judgment

day of Pentecost

day of the Lord

Dead Sea Scrolls

Decalogue

Defender (God)

deism

deist

deity of Christ

demiurge

demon

demonic

deuterocanonical

Deuteronomic

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diglot

disciples

dispensation

dispensation of the law

dispensationalism

dispensationalist

divine

Divine Doctor

Divine Father

divine guidance

Divine King

Divine Liturgy

divine office

Divine Providence (God)

divine providence (God's providence)

doctor of the church

doctors of the church

Door, the (Christ)

doxology

 

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early church

early church fathers

Early Church Fathers (title of work)

Easter Sunday

Eastern church

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Eastern Orthodox

Eastern religions

Eastern Rites

ecumenical

Ecumenism

Eden

El

El Shaddai

Elohim

Elohist source

Emmaus road

emperor, but Emperor Nero

end-time

Enemy, the (Satan)

enemy, the (satanic forces)

Epiphany

epistle

Epistle to the

eschatological

eschatology

eternal life

eternity

Eucharist

eucharistic

Evangel

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evangelical

evangelicalism

evangelicals

evangelist

evensong

extrabiblical

extreme unction

 

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faith healing

fall of humanity

fall of Jerusalem

false christs

False Prophet (of Revelation)

false prophet(s)

Farewell Discourses

Father of Lies

fatherhood of God

Feast (meaning Passover)

Feast of Booths

Feast of Esther

Feast of Firstfruits

Feast of Tabernacles

Feast of the Dedication

Feast of the Lights

Feast of the Passover

Feast of the Unleavened Bread

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Fertile Crescent

fertility god

fertility goddess

first advent

First Estate

first person of the Trinity

First Vatican Council

firstborn Son of God

Firstfruits

footwashing

free will

Friend (Quaker)

fundamentalism

fundamentalist

fundamentalists

fundamentals of the faith

 

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garden of Eden

garden of Gethsemane

gehenna

Gemara

General Epistles

General Letters

Gentile

Gentile laws

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Gloria Patri

gnostic

Gnosticism

god (pagan)

God (Yahweh)

God Almighty

God is spirit

God is the one who

God Most High

God-given

God-man

Godhead (essential being of God)

godhead (godhood or godship)

godless

godlike

godliness

godly

godsend

Godspeed

godward

God's elect

God's house

God's Son

God's Spirit

God's word (his statement or promise)

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God's Word (the Bible)

Good Friday

Good Shepherd (Jesus)

good shepherd, the parable of the

gospel

Gospel of Matthew

gospel truth

grain offering

Great Schism

Ground of Being

guilt offering

 

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Hades (Greek mythology)

hades (hell)

Haggadah

hagiographa

hagiographer

hagiographic

Hail Mary

halakah

Hallel

hallelujah

Hanukkah

Hasidic

Hasidim

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head of the church

heaven

heavenly Father

Hebraism

Heidelberg Catechism

Heilsgeschichte

hell

Hellenism

Hellenistic

hellenize

Heptateuch

Herodian

Herod's temple

Hexapla

high church

Hittite Law Code

holiness

Holy Bible

Holy Book

Holy City

Holy Communion

holy day of obligation

Holy Eucharist

holy family

Holy Father

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Holy Ghost

Holy God

Holy Grail

Holy Island

Holy Joe

Holy Land

Holy League

Holy of Holies

holy oil

holy order

holy orders

Holy Place

Holy Roller

Holy Roman Empire

Holy Saturday

Holy Scriptures

Holy See

Holy Spirit

Holy Thursday

Holy Trinity

holy war

holy water

Holy Week

Holy Writ

Holy Year

homologoumena

house of David

house of the Lord

 

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imago Dei

Immanuel

incarnation of Christ

Indo-European

Inner veil

intertestamental

Isaian or Isaianic

 

Jacob's trouble

Jehovah

Jehovah's Witness

jeremiad

Jeremian or Jeremianic

Jewish Feast

Jewish New Year

Johannine

John the Baptist

John the Beloved

John the Evangelist

Jordan River

Jubilee

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Judaic

Judaica

Judaism

Judaist

Judaistic

Judaize

Judaizer

Judean

Judeo-Christian

judgment day

judgment seat of Christ

 

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Kaddish

kerygma

King David

King James Version

King Jesus

King of Glory

King of Kings

kingdom age

kingdom of God

kingdom of heaven

kingdom of Israel

kingdom of Satan

kingship of Christ

kinsman-redeemer

koinonia

Koran

Koranic

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lake of fire

Lamb of God

Lamb's Book of Life

land of Canaan

Land of Promise

last rites

Latin Rite

lauds

laver

law (as opposed to grace)

Law, the (Pentateuch)

law of Moses

Lawgiver

Lent

Lenten

Levite

Levitical

Levitical decrees

Liberal

liberalism

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Light (Truth or Christ)

Light of the World

Lindisfarne

living God

loanword

Lord of Hosts

Lord of Lords

lordship of Christ

Lost Tribes

lost tribes of Israel

low church

Lucifer

Lukan

 

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Maccabean

Maccabees

magi

major prophets

Majority Text

mammon

Man of Sin

Man of Sorrows

Marcan

Markan

Masorete

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Masoretic text

matins

matrimony

Matthean

medieval

menorah

mercy seat

messiahship

messianic

Middle Ages

Midtribulation

midtribulational

millenarian

millenarianism

millenarianist

millennial kingdom

minor prophets (people)

Minor Prophets, the (div. of OT)

Mishnah

Mishnaic

modernism

Modernist

Modernists

moon-god

Mosaic

Mosaic law

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Mount of Olives

Mount of Transfiguration

Mount Olivet

Mount Olivet Discourse

Mount Sinai

Muhammad

Muslim

 

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Nag Hammadi codices

Near East

Neo-Babylonian Empire

neo-Pentecostalism

Neoorthodox

neoorthodoxy

neoplatonic

new birth

New City

new covenant

new heaven and new earth

New Jerusalem

New Testament church

Nicene Creed

Nicene fathers

night office

Ninety-five Theses

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Noah's ark

non-Christian

non-Pauline

noncanonical

Nonconformism

Nonconformist

none (canonical hour)

northern kingdom

Nunc Dimittis

 

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Old City

old covenant

Olivet Discourse

omnipotence of God

only begotten of the Father

only begotten Son of God

orders (sacrament)

original Sin

orthodox

orthodoxy

our Lady

outer court

 

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Palestine

Palestinian covenant

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Palm Sunday

papacy

parable of the prodigal son

Paradise (garden of Eden)

paradise (heaven)

parousia

partial rapture

Paschal Lamb

passion

Passion Sunday

Passion Week

Passover

Passover Feast

Passover Lamb

Pastoral Epistles

Pastoral Letters

Paul the apostle

Pauline Epistles

Paul's epistles

Paul's letters

peace offering

penance

Pentateuch

Pentateuchal

Pentecost

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Pentecostal

Pentecostalism

person of Christ

Pesach

Petrine

Pharaoh (when used as name without article)

pharaoh, the (general)

pharisaic (attitude)

Pharisaic (in reference to Pharisees)

Pilgrim Fathers

pillar of cloud

pillar of fire

Pope John Paul II

post-Christian

post-Nicene fathers

postbiblical

postexilic

postmillennial

postmillennialism

postmillennialist

postmodern

pre-Christian

predestination

premillenarian

premillennial

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premillennialism

premillennialist

pretribulation

pretribulational

priesthood of believers

priesthood of Christ

prime (canonical hour)

Prime Mover

Prince of Darkness

Prince of Peace

Prison Epistles

Prison Letters

Promised Land

the Prophets, the (books of OT)

prophets, the (people)

Protestant

Protestantism

Providence (God)

providence of God

providential

Psalm 119

psalmic

pseudepigrapha

pseudepigraphal

purgatory

Purim

 

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Qumran

Qur'an

Qur'anic

 

rabbi

rabbinic

rabbinical

real presence

Reformation

Reformed church

Reformed Theology

Reformers

Renaissance

resurrection of Christ

rite

rites

Roman Catholic Church

Roman Rite

Rosh Hashanah

 

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sabbath rest (for the land)

Sabbath rest (for the people of God)

Sabbath rest

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sabbatical

sacrament

sacrament of baptism

sacramentalism

sacramentalist

Sacramentarian

Sacramentarianism

sacraments

Sacred Host

sacred rite

sacred rites

Sadducee

Sanhedrin

Satan

satanic

satanism

Savior

scribe

scriptural

Scripture(s) (Bible; n. and adj.)

scripture(s) (other religions)

Sea of Galilee

second coming of Christ

Second Estate

second person of the Trinity

Second Vatican Council

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seder

Semite

Semitic

Semitism

Septuagesima

Septuagint

Seraph

seraphim

Sermon on the Mount

seventh heaven

Seventh-day Adventist

Seventieth Week

sext

Shabuoth

shalom

shalom aleichem

shekinah

sheol (italicized only when referred to as a Hebrew word)

shofar

Shulammite

sin offering

Sinai Desert

Sinai peninsula

Solomon's temple

son of David

Son of God

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Son of Man

Song of Mary

sonship of Christ

southern kingdom

Sovereign Lord

star of Bethlehem

stations of the cross

Sukkoth

Sun of Righteousness

sun-god

Sunday school

Sunday school teacher

Sustainer

synagogue

Synoptic Gospels

 

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table of shewbread

Talmud

talmudic

Tanak

Targum

targumic

Te Deum

Ten Commandments

tent

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Tent of Meeting

Tent of the Testimony

terce

tetragrammaton

Textus Receptus

the Abyss

the advent

the Advocate

the age to come

the Almighty

the angel Gabriel

the Annunciation

the Anointed

the Anointed One

the Apocalypse

the Apocrypha

the apostles

the Apostolic Fathers

the ark

the ascension

the atonement

the babe in the manger

the baptism of Christ

the Baptist

the Beast

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the Beatitudes

the Beloved Apostle

the betrayal

the Bible

the Bible Belt

the body of Christ

the Book

the Book of the Twelve

the boy Jesus

the bride of Christ

the Bridegroom

the burning bush

the Canon

the canon of Scripture

the Canonical Epistles

the captivity

the Catholic Church

the Chronicler

the church

the Comforter

the Commandments

the Counselor

the covenant

the covenant of the Lord

the creation

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the Creator

the creator God

the creed

the cross

the Crucified One

the crucifixion

the crucifixion of Christ

the Crusades

the curse

the Day of Atonement

the Deity

the deluge

the Devil

the Diaspora

the dispersion

the divided kingdom

the Divinity

the divinity of Christ

the Door

the Dragon

the Eastern Orthodox Church

the eighth commandment

the elect

the Eleven

the empire

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the end time

the end times

the enemy

the Epistles

the Eternal

the Eternal City

the eternal God

the Evangelists

the Evil One

the exile

the exodus

the faith

the fall

the Father

the Fathers

the fathers of the church

the fifth commandment

the first Adam

the First Cause

the first commandment

the Firstborn

the flood

the four evangelists

the four gospels

the fourth commandment

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the fourth gospel

the Galilean

the garden

the golden calf

the golden candlesticks

the Golden Rule

the Good Book

the good news

the Good Samaritan

the Gospels

the Great Awakening

the Great Commandments

the Great Commission

the Great High Priest

the great judgment

the Great Physician

the Great Shepherd

the great tribulation

the great white throne

the Guide

the Head

the High Priest

the High Priestly Prayer

the Historical Books

the Holiness Movement

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the Holy One

the immaculate conception

the incarnation

the infancy gospels

the infant Jesus

the Inklings

the Intercessor

the Jesus Prayer

the judges

the kingdom

the Lamb

the last day

the last days

the last judgment

the Last Supper

the last times

the Latter Prophets

the Law

the Litany

the Living Word

the Logos

the Lord

the Lord Almighty

the Lord's Anointed

the Lord's anointed Savior

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the Lord's Day

the Lord's Prayer

the Lord's Super

the Lord's Table

the Love Chapter

the Magnificat

the Major Prophets

the Man

the Mass

the Master

the Mediator

the Messiah

the millennium

the Minor Prophets

the Miserere

the Most High

the name of Christ

the name of God

the nativity

the nativity of Christ

the ninth commandment

the Omega

the Omnipotent

the One

the one true God

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the Only Begotten

the parable of the good Samaritan

the parable of the good shepherd

the parable of the prodigal son

the Paraclete

the Patriarch

the patriarchs

the pharaoh

the Pilgrims

the Poetical Books

the pope

the Prodigal Son

the promised One

the prophet Isaiah

the Prophetic Books

the Prophets

the psalmist

the Psalms

the Psalter

the rapture

the Received Text

the Redeemer

the resurrection

the river Jordan

the River of Life

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the Rock

the Roman Catholic Church

the second Adam

the second advent

the second coming

the second commandment

the Serpent

the seven deadly sins

the seven sacraments

the seventh commandment

the Shepherd Psalm

the Sin-Bearer

the sixth commandment

the Spirit

the Supreme Being

the synoptic writers

the Synoptics

the tabernacle

the temple

the temptation

the temptation in the desert

the temptation of Christ

the Ten Commandments

the Ten Tribes

the ten tribes of Israel

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the tenth commandment

the Testaments

the third commandment

the three persons of the Trinity

the time of the Gentiles

the time of the judges

the tomb

the transfiguration

the tribulation

the Trinity

the True Cross

the Twelve

the twelve apostles

the twelve disciples

the upper room

the Victor

the Vine

the Virgin

the virgin birth

the Virgin Mary

the Wandering Jew

the Way

the way, the truth, and the life

the Weeping Prophet

the Wicked One

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the Wisdom Literature

the Word

the Word of God

the Word of Truth

the Writings

third person of the Trinity

Thirty-nine Articles

throne of grace

Thummim

time of Jacob's trouble

Torah

Tower of Babel

Transjordan

Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

Tree of Life

Tribe of Judah

Trinitarian

triumphal entry

triune God

Twenty-third Psalm

 

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unchristian

ungodly

Unitarian

united kingdom

universal church

universalism

universalist

unscriptural

Upanishads

Upper Room Discourse

Urim

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vacation Bible school

Vedes

Vedic

vespers

viaticum

Virgin and child

visible church

voice of God

Vulgate

 

Water of Life

Western church

Western Rites

Westminster Catechism

wise men

Word made flesh

word of God (his statement or promise)

Word of God (the Bible)

Word of Life

 

Yahweh (italicized only when referred to as a Hebrew word)

Year of Jubilee

Yom Kippur

Yuletide

 

 

 

 

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