# Talk:Book of Common Prayer (Unitarian)

@Pbritti: I am wondering why you reverted my decapitalization of terms referring to theological movements such as "subordinationist". MOS:ISMCAPS provides, Names of organized religions (as well as officially recognized sects), whether as a noun or an adjective, and their adherents start with a capital letter. Unofficial movements, ideologies or philosophies within religions are generally not capitalized unless derived from a proper name. For example, Islam, Christianity, Catholic, Pentecostal, and Calvinist are capitalized, while evangelicalism and fundamentalism are not. ...Doctrines, ideologies, philosophies, theologies, theories, movements, methods, processes, systems or "schools" of thought and practice, and fields of academic study or professional practice are not capitalized, unless the name derives from a proper name. ... Doctrinal topics, canonical religious ideas, and procedural systems that may be traditionally capitalized within a faith or field are given in lower case in Wikipedia, such as a virgin birth, original sin, transubstantiation, and method acting.
Graham (talk) 06:52, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

@Graham11: I would emphasize the word "generally" in this MOS, as reliable sourcing generally trumps MOS guidelines. In this case "Subordinationism" is both capitalized and not capitalized in reliable (secular) academic sources, so I am will to defer to the lowercase. However, in the other parts restored, secondary sources explicitly and exclusively provide the capitalizations as they are given, so I see no reason to impose a contradictory capitalization scheme for the sake of MOS. ~ Pbritti (talk) 07:06, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Also, in the title of the 1785 prayer book, it should be noted that the T in "The Use" is cited to a secondary source (which I've verified against primary sourcing) and is something of a longstanding idiosyncrasy within Anglican prayer book nomenclature. I could go into the reason it came to be that way, but suffice to say some guy convinced Oxford to publish almost a whole book on the subject back in the '40s. ~ Pbritti (talk) 07:11, 10 February 2023 (UTC)