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Godself
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English
Pronunciation
en GA /ɡɑdˈsɛlf/
en RP /ɡɒdˈsɛlf/
en ɛlf 2
Pronoun
reflexive form of God
en reflexive pronoun Non-gendered form of God himself.
en 2016 2009 Hannah Bacon What's Right with the Trinity? Conversations in Feminist Theology Routledge https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=ZPaNCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT102 This is so, Barth claims, because reflection on revelation actually leads to the realization that the God who reveals Godself as Godself is in fact the trinitarian God.
en emphatic Non-gendered form of God himself.
en 2024 Dirk J. Smit Sipho Mahokoto Essays on the Real Church: Collected Essays 8 African Sun Media 21 https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=YQ4nEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA21 In the songs praising God’s goodness beats the praise for the wondrous promises of God’s kingdom, of the new heaven and the new earth on which justice prevails, of fellowship with God when Godself will wipe away all tears from the eyes, where there will be no affliction any more, no longer any violence and injustice.
Usage notes
Used by some authors to avoid assigning a gendered pronoun to en God.
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