Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!topaz!christian From: mangoe@mimsy.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: mod.religion.christian Subject: Re: Gender in religion Message-ID: <8339@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 03:41:26 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.8339 Posted: Tue Jan 13 03:41:26 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 07:17:07 EST Sender: hedrick@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Lines: 6 Approved: christian@topaz.UUCP In-Reply-To: <8176@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Calling the Trinity "Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier" also has the drawback that it depersonalizes the Persons. "Father" is very much more descriptive of the kind of relationship men can have with that Person than "Creator" is. C. Wingate