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<span class="gmail-articletime"> Fri, 27 Jan 2017-08:10am , DNA</span>
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Many colleges abroad are adopting gender neutral language to refer
to God, replacing words like ‘Father’, ‘Son’ and ‘He’ </p></div>
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<p>Just a day after Oxford University college for priests in the United
Kingdom issued an inclusive language policy asking the staff and
students to use gender neutral terminology when referring to god, the
college's principal in a statement denied such suggestions being made.</p>
<p>Wycliffe Hall which trains clergy for the Church of England, in its
inclusive language policy recommends that 'the one who' should be used
instead of 'He' in references to God and advocates choosing hymns in
which references to 'son' can be changed to 'child'.</p>
<p>In a statement to Huffington Post the college's principal Revd Dr
Michael Lloyd said, "There is no suggestion that traditional gender
pronouns concerning God should be altered in any way."</p>
<p>"Indeed the Hall's policy reaffirms that we should continue to speak
of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, as Christians have always done,"
read the statement.</p>
<p>In December last year <a href="http://heatstreet.com">heatstreet.com</a> reported University of Sussex
to be the first university to adopt mandatory gender inclusive language.
A month later divinity schools at Vanderbilt and Duke Universities
issued same guidelines on using 'gender neutral language' while
referring to God.</p>
<p>Following the suit, Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College announced a
course titled 'Is God a White Supermacist?' focusing on representations
of race in religious discourses and social practice.</p> </div>
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