Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian or Julian calendar, and are exactly equivalent to the Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC) notations. "2025 CE" and "AD 2025" each describe the current year; "400 BCE" and "400 BC" are the same year.[1][2] BCE/CE are primarily used to avoid religious connotations[3] by not referring to Jesus as "Our Lord".[4][5][a] Nevertheless, the year numbers remain the same as Anno Domini.

  1. ^ "Anno Domini". Merriam Webster Online Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. 2003. Retrieved 4 October 2011. Etymology: Medieval Latin, in the year of the Lord
  2. ^ "Controversy over the use of the "CE/BCE" and "AD/BC" dating notation/". Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance. Archived from the original on 3 March 2000. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  3. ^ Espenak, Fred (25 February 2008). "Year dating conventions". NASA. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  4. ^ Herrmann, Andrew (27 May 2006). "BCE date designation called more sensitive". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2016. The changes – showing up at museums, in academic circles and in school textbooks – have been touted as more sensitive to people of faiths outside of Christianity. ... The use of BCE and CE have rankled some Christians
  5. ^ McKim, Donald K (1996). "C. E.". Westminster dictionary of theological terms. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-664-25511-4.
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