Aug 15, 2007
There is some good news on the progress of the ESV translation of the Scriptures. You can read it on the ESV Blog. Much of it centers around an interview with JI Packer. Here is an exerpt:
Packer said the intent was to produce a “general purpose” Bible, suitable for preaching and exposition, reading in churches, memorization, lay Bible study, and personal Bible reading by people of all ages. A deliberate attempt was made to use simple words when possible, and to make the text “dance along,” or read easily.
Packer said the producers were very careful to not make extravagant claims or get into a competition with other translations. The ESV was not launched with the “trumpets and drums” of some other translations launched about the same time, he said.
Rather, the ESV was released quietly and soberly and allowed to “find its own level.” ESV’s natural audience is “serious evangelicals who want a translation they can trust to be transparent to the original.”
Packer said this appears to be what is behind the growing sales. Pastors are examining the translation, finding they can trust it and then recommending it to their congregations—and in some cases “retooling” their churches by using ESV as a pew Bible.
Well, we don't have a "pew Bible" or pews for that matter, but we did switch our pulpit and most of our church to the ESV. This is one of the things I am very thankful for about my time and contribution to Fellowship Nashville.
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ok PC boy, I just picked up copy of Office 2007, and yes, I agree it is very nice. Microstink can get something right every once in a while. Not to worry, when I get my new iMac in October I'll be sure to have Windows (through Parallels) and I'll install Office 2007. I don't want you to get the wrong impression. :-)
Oh and good luck with the move and everything.
Posted by: BV | August 15, 2007 07:36 PM
Run both on your new sleek iMac. They look cool. I hear the graphics card in them ain's so hot though.
I used MacIdolators as illustration in a paper I just wrote on the New Testament for Inversion. Look for it here soon on the blog :)
How many more years do you have at A&M? If you want a bizarre science read - pick up Tippler's the Physics of Christianity. Starts out good...than gets Matrix weird.
Posted by: Reid Monaghan | August 16, 2007 04:45 PM
I hope to be finished with my PhD circa December. I've sent away my CV to one place and need to canvas a few more places, so we'll see.
I heard of Tippler's book on a very very bad blog called Debunking Christianity. This blog has a bunch of former evangelicals and they rehash many of the same arguments against Christianity. Anyways, they had a blurb on Tippler's book.
But I think I'll take a sub-par graphics card against a computer that breaks when you turn it on (i.e. PC)
Posted by: BV | August 16, 2007 08:28 PM
Touche! On Tipler - his view of eternal life? Living uploaded in super computers running deep beneath bedrock safe from nukes...sounds like Christianity to me. He keeps all of our categories - incarnation, Trinity (which is now the singularity of the multiverse, the singularity of the beginning of our universe and the singularity at the end of our universe), and eternal life - in something much weirder than 2nd Life.
I'll take a PC, for half the cost, a great graphics card, and an operating system that never crashes. I have never crashed Windows XP - God's honest truth - never. I will hook up little Apples to it though :)
Posted by: Reid Monaghan | August 16, 2007 09:02 PM