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 Capitalize— The word church when representing organized Christianity, or when part of the name of a sect, congregation, or building; as, Church of Rome, Church of England, High Church, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, First Methodist Church.

Names for the Bible and other sacred books; as, Word of God, Scriptures, Koran, Gospel. Also versions of the Bible; as, King James’s Version, Revised Version, etc. Books and divisions of the Bible and other sacred books; as, Old and New Testament, Book of Job, Beatitudes, etc. Biblical parables; as, the parable of the Prodigal Son; and such miscellaneous terms as the Ten Commandments, Sermon on the Mount, Lord’s Supper, Golden Rule, etc.; such adjectives as Biblical, Koranic, Vedic, etc.


 * Do not capitalize words like book, gospel, epistle, psalm, in such connections as the five books of Moses, the first forty psalms, etc.

Creeds and confessions of faith; as, Apostles’ Creed, Nicene Creed, Augsburg Confession, Thirty-nine Articles.

The names of monastic orders and their members; as, Black Friars, Trappists, Jesuits.

Names applied to a personal being supposed to be the incarnation of evil (but not when used as an expletive or as a general name for any demon); as, Devil, Evil One, Old Boy, Satan, the Fiend, Archfiend, etc.

Geological terms, as, Cretaceous, Jurassic, Miocene, etc.

The scientific (Latin or latinized) names of classes, orders, families, and genera. In the names of species and subspecies, consisting respectively of two and three parts, the first part (the generic name) is always capitalized; in zoölogy the second and third parts (the specific and subspecific names) are never capitalized even when derived from a proper noun. In botany usage varies in respect to specific and subspecific names which are proper nouns or proper adjectives or taken from the names of genera, and copy should be followed; but the first part is always capitalized, and the others usually not. Examples: Vertebrata, Reptilia, Felis leo, Falco columbarus richardsoni; Clematis Virginiana; Pinus rigida.

In astronomical work, the names of the bodies of our solar system (except sun, earth, moon, stars); as, the Milky Way, the Great Bear, etc.