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God in Christianity is represented by the Trinity of three hypostases or "persons" described as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. While "Father" and "Son" implicitly invoke masculine sex, the gender of the Holy Spirit from earliest times was also represented as including feminine aspects (partly due to grammatical gender, especially in the Syriac church). Furthermore, the (feminine) concept of Holy Wisdom was identified with Christ the Logos and thus with God the Son from earliest times. Today, there is a push among some Christians for use of different pronouns to describe God than have been traditionally held.

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  • God in Christianity is represented by the Trinity of three hypostases or "persons" described as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. While "Father" and "Son" implicitly invoke masculine sex, the gender of the Holy Spirit from earliest times was also represented as including feminine aspects (partly due to grammatical gender, especially in the Syriac church). Furthermore, the (feminine) concept of Holy Wisdom was identified with Christ the Logos and thus with God the Son from earliest times. Today, there is a push among some Christians for use of different pronouns to describe God than have been traditionally held. While the Biblical text and Christian faith as a whole frequently use masculine pronouns to describe God, this is not consistent with Christian beliefs about who God is. The ostensibly masculine terms "Father" and "Son" were explicitly stated to be taken as metaphorical, and not as representing divine essence, by Gregory of Nazianzus (4th century). The same position is still held in the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church. (en)
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  • God in Christianity is represented by the Trinity of three hypostases or "persons" described as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. While "Father" and "Son" implicitly invoke masculine sex, the gender of the Holy Spirit from earliest times was also represented as including feminine aspects (partly due to grammatical gender, especially in the Syriac church). Furthermore, the (feminine) concept of Holy Wisdom was identified with Christ the Logos and thus with God the Son from earliest times. Today, there is a push among some Christians for use of different pronouns to describe God than have been traditionally held. (en)
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  • Gender of God in Christianity (en)
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