To: OLD REGGIE; Belteshazzar
when "Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" changed from adjectives to proper nouns in your Creed. Holy, Catholic and Apostolic are adjectives and Church is a noun. Not a proper noun. Maybe I don't understand the question or don't know the English grammar well enough to answer.
5,678 posted on
12/21/2010 5:15:15 PM PST by
annalex
(http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
To: annalex
when "Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" changed from adjectives to proper nouns in your Creed.
Holy, Catholic and Apostolic are adjectives and Church is a noun. Not a proper noun. Maybe I don't understand the question or don't know the English grammar well enough to answer. Forgive me for wasting your time. I was attempting to make the point that when the Apostles Creed was first written in Greek "catholic/universal" was not capitalized and was an adjective. For that matter the letters of Ignatius were written "catholic" was not capitalized.
Somewhere along the way "catholic" (adjective) became "Catholic" (and used as a proper noun.) ie. "Catholic Church".
5,702 posted on
12/22/2010 10:33:24 AM PST by
OLD REGGIE
(I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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