What is C.E. as referenced to in a year? For example, 900 C.E.?

Answer 1

It stands for the "Common Era". So BCE is "Before the Common ERA" and "CE" is just the "Common Era"

Answer 2

CE does stand for Common Era, and BCE Before the Common Era. There are two reasons for the change from BC/AD to BCE/CE. 1. Non-Christians, and there are many, believe this era is also theirs. 2. The idea that BC occurred before Christ's birth and AD after it is flawed. Christ was born in either 4 or 6BCE, based on astronomical calculations. There is also no year 0, so the birth of Christ has no chronological space in that system. It is not a denial of Christ's birth or Christian faith to partake in the new distinction of time. Our eras are our way of counting time. They are named for ease of understanding when an event took place and the old BC/AD system was centered on the suposed birthdate of Christ, but this was not the first system and the years have been called many things, obviously the people here before Christianity did not know when Crist would be born and did not consider themselves in a countdown to that date, not even the Jews who were (and still are) awaiting the event. There's a lot of interesting information on how the years were counted and named in ancient times.

Answer 3

C.E. means Common Era. We are in the year 2006 C.E.

Answer 4

C.E. stands for the common era. It is now the "political correct" way to say after the death of Jesus, formerly known as AD

Answer 5

C.E. stands for Common Era. The old "BC" (before Christ) is typically referred to now as Before Common Era (BCE) and after the birth of Christ, "Common Era." Hope this helps.

Answer 6

Common Era?

Answer 7

C. E. stands for "Common Era"

This is used instead of A. D. by countries and cultures who do not recognize Jesus Christ as the "marker" for the beginning of the modern era.

Answer 8

Mrs Potts-Reilly is very silly. Our calendar was created by Pope Gregory and is a Christian calendar. The number 2006 has no meaning other than referring to the years since Christ's birth. Replacing Anno Domini with CE is a politically-correct attempt to erase our history and pretend Christianity has not shaped our society. Muslims also have their own calendar dating from Mohammed - do you think they'll ditch their tradition? Will they heck.

Answer 9

according to Gale's Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary, 37th edition, p. 868 C.E. is "Common Era" and "Christian Era."

Random House Webster's Unabridged dictionary only lists "Common Era" and NOT "Christian Era."

Answer 10

since this has been adequately answered, I'd like to comment that Christ has done more to shape the whole worlds' societies than any other person or force in all of history, yet never wrote a book or left the area where He lived [when he was yet embodied as a man].