Editing Common Era (section)

== References ==
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<ref name="VulgarisAerae1">{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_rrkRjuY3p0gC/page/n10/ |oclc = 62188677 |quote={{lang|la|Dabam Pragae Idibus Aprilibus, Anno vulgaris aerae MDCXII}} |author=Johannes Kepler|title=Joannis Keppleri Eclogae chronicae: (etc) |publisher=Tampach |location=Frankfurt |language=la |year=1615 |author-link=Johannes Kepler}} (Earliest-found use of "{{lang|la|vulgaris aerae}}", Latin for Common Era) (1615)</ref>
<ref name="Irvin">{{cite book|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=C2akvQfa-QMC&pg=PR11 xi] |title=History of the World Christian Movement |first1=Dale T. |last1=Irvin |last2=Sunquist |first2=Scott |date=2001 |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |isbn=0-567-08866-9 |quote=The influence of western culture and scholarship upon the rest of the world in turn led to this system of dating becoming the most widely used one across the globe today. Many scholars in historical and religious studies in the West in recent years have sought to lessen the explicitly Christian meaning of this system without abandoning the usefulness of a single, common, global form of dating. For this reason the terms ''common era'' and ''before the common era'', abbreviated as CE and BCE, have grown in popularity as designations. The terms are meant, in deference to non-Christians, to soften the explicit theological claims made by the older Latin terminology, while at the same time providing continuity with earlier generations of mostly western Christian historical research}}</ref>
<ref name="Pedersen">{{cite book |title= Gregorian Reform of the Calendar: Proceedings of the Vatican Conference to commemorate its 400th anniversary |url=https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?journal=grc..&year=1983&volume=book&letter=.&db_key=PRE&page_ind=66&plate_select=NO&data_type=GIF&type=SCREEN_GIF&classic=YES |last=Pedersen |first=O. |date=1983 |chapter=The Ecclesiastical Calendar and the Life of the Church |chapter-url=https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?journal=grc..&year=1983&volume=book&letter=.&db_key=PRE&page_ind=34&plate_select=NO&data_type=GIF&type=SCREEN_GIF&classic=YES |editor=Coyne, G.V. |display-editors= et al. |page=[http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?journal=grc..&year=1983&volume=book&letter=.&db_key=PRE&page_ind=66&plate_select=NO&data_type=GIF&type=SCREEN_GIF&classic=YES 50] |publisher=Vatican Observatory |access-date=18 May 2011 |via=SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)}}</ref>
<ref name="Gormley">{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Gormley |title=Use of B.C. and A.D. faces changing times |newspaper=[[Houston Chronicle]] |date=24 April 2005 |url=https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Use-of-B-C-and-A-D-faces-changing-times-1643198.php |page=A–13 |access-date=18 May 2011}}</ref>
<ref name="RelTolrnc">{{cite web |url=http://www.religioustolerance.org/ceintro.htm |title=Comments on the use of CE and BCE to identify dates in history |publisher=ReligiousTolerance.com |access-date=18 May 2011}}</ref>
<ref name="Wilson">{{cite book |title=The Columbia Guide to Standard American English – A.D., B.C., (A.)C.E., B.C.E. |first=Kenneth G. |last=Wilson |date=16 December 1993 |quote=A.D. appears either before or after the number of the year&nbsp;... although conservative use has long preferred before only; B.C. always follows the number of the year.&nbsp;... Common era (C.E.) itself needs a good deal of further justification, in view of its clearly Christian numbering. Most conservatives still prefer A.D. and B.C. Best advice: don't use B.C.E., C.E., or A.C.E. to replace B.C. and A.D. without translating the new terms for the very large number of readers who will not understand them. Note too that if we do end by casting aside the A.D./B.C. convention, almost certainly some will argue that we ought to cast aside as well the conventional numbering system itself, given its Christian basis. |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-06989-2}}</ref>
<ref name="SBC">{{cite web |url=https://www.sbc.net/resource-library/resolutions/on-retaining-the-traditional-method-of-calendar-dating-b-c-a-d/ |title=On Retaining The Traditional Method Of Calendar Dating (B.C./A.D.) |publisher=[[Southern Baptist Convention]] |date=June 2000 |quote=This practice [of BCE/CE] is the result of the secularization, anti-supernaturalism, religious pluralism, and political correctness pervasive in our society&nbsp;... retention [of BC/AD] is a reminder to those in this secular age of the importance of Christ's life and mission and emphasizes to all that history is ultimately His Story.|access-date=18 May 2011}}</ref>
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