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The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible
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The King James Version (KJV) has shaped the church, our worship, and our mother tongue for over 400 years. But what should we do with it today?
The KJV beautifully rendered the Scriptures into the language of turn-of-the-17th-century England. Even today, the King James version is the most widely read Bible in the United States. The rich cadence of its Elizabethan English is recognized even by non-Christians. But English has changed a great deal over the last 400 years and in subtle ways that very few modern readers or listeners will recognize. In Authorized, Mark L. Ward, Jr. shows what people who exclusively pursue the KJV are missing as they read God's word.
In their introduction to the King James Bible, the translators tell us that Christians must "hear Christ speaking unto them in their mother tongue." In Authorized, Mark Ward builds a case for the KJV translators' view that English Bible translations should be readable by what they called "the very vulgar" and what we would call "the man on the street".
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In this compelling new book - drawn from conversations with and narrated by award-winning Vatican journalist John L. Allen Jr. - Barron, founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, proclaims in vivid language the goodness and truth of the Catholic tradition. Through Barron's smart, practical, artistic, and theological observations - as well as through personal anecdotes about everything from engaging atheists on YouTube to his days as a young die-hard baseball fan from Chicago - To Light a Fire on the Earth covers prodigious ground.
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Not by Bishop Barron
- By M. Waters on 05-22-18
By: Bishop Robert Barron, and others
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The Sin of Certainty
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- By: Peter Enns
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With compelling and often humorous stories from his own life, Bible scholar Peter Enns offers a fresh look at how Christian life truly works, answering questions that cannot be addressed by the idealized traditional doctrine of "once for all delivered to the saints".
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Title may mislead the actual content
- By Adam Shields on 05-26-16
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A New Kind of Christianity
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- By: Brian D. McLaren
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We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in the church. Not since the Reformation five centuries ago have so many Christians come together to ask whether the church is in sync with their deepest beliefs and commitments. These believers range from evangelicals to mainline Protestants to Catholics, and the person who best represents them is author and pastor Brian McLaren. In this much anticipated book, McLaren examines ten questions facing today's church - questions about how to articulate the faith itself, the nature of its authority, who God is....
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Clear, Careful, Considerate Confrontation
- By Celia on 09-10-12
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In this groundbreaking book, one of America's premier religion writers revives ancient expressions through cultural commentary, vulnerable personal narratives, and surprising biblical insights. Both provocative and liberating, Learning to Speak God from Scratch will breathe new life into your spiritual conversations and lure you into the embrace of the God who inhabits them.
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New in sight into stale old language
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The Council of Nicea was not clerics in a dark and ornate hall. It was brawls in churchyards; it was emperors and governors fighting to save the empire; it was political intrigue as the governments of church and state blended into a volatile stew. It was the way a fringe group of peace-loving communal worshipers of a crucified Palestinian prophet conquered the Roman Empire.
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Who mixes fact with fiction?
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Winner of the John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences, Jaroslav Pelikan is Professor Emeritus of history at Yale University and past president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This examination of the history of the Bible reflects half a century of study and research by the author. In Whose Bible Is It?, Pelikan traces the transformation of the Bible from its earliest oral traditions to its modern forms.
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Too Verbose Not Enough "Big Picture" Bible History
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Help My Unbelief
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Barnabas Piper unpacks what faith really means. He shows how embracing doubts and questions can help us to get to know God and encourages us to risk trusting God in our everyday lives, even when we don’t understand everything about him. This book will encourage Christians seeking to ask questions in a godly way and will give them confidence to trust God, even when some questions remain.
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A critical foundational read for any believer's at any time in their walk
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How God Became King
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New Testament scholar N. T. Wright reveals how we have been misreading the Gospels for centuries, powerfully restoring the lost central story of the scripture: that the coronation of God through the acts of Jesus was the climax of human history. Wright fills the gaps that centuries of misdirection have opened up in our collective spiritual story, tracing a narrative from Eden to Jesus to today.
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Jesus' life matters, not just his death
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Atheism for Dummies
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Atheism For Dummies offers a brief history of atheist philosophy and its evolution, explores it as a historical and cultural movement, covers important historical writings on the subject, and discusses the nature of ethics and morality in the absence of religion. A simple, yet intelligent exploration of an often misunderstood philosophy.
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Great topic...irritating narrator
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- BMW Lad
- 09-15-23
A balanced presentation
I appreciated that Mark began with praise and explanation of his background with the king James translation of the Bible. I appreciate the balance in which he pleads for understanding.
It is well worth reading, regardless of your favoritism toward one translation or another.
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- TheTempkeTribe
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Comprehensive and clear
It’s difficult to enter the world of apologetics without a bias view. Yet the author has been positioned perfectly through experience, personality, and education, to be the sound voice of reason, rising above the noisy argument; for such a time as this. I will forever grateful for what this book has taught me in both content, and presentation. This is one book I will read again, and share with friends.
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- Monte Hickingbottom
- 07-10-22
Fantastic resource
What an amazing critique of the KJV. The author doesn’t recommend eliminating the usage of the KJV, but recommends that all user will consider adding additional versions. He also recommends against giving the KJV to new believers. After hearing his arguments, this former KJV-only guys has been convinced.
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- Richard J.
- 06-08-24
Interesting and well-written
Mark Ward's book on the increasing unintelligibility of the KJV, despite its many assets, is well worth a listen. It is thoughtful and well-researched, but he keeps it light with his distinctive style of clever humor. I have seen many of his YouTube videos and enjoyed his reading of his own work here.
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- Ronnie E. Brown
- 11-26-19
Intelligent illumination to a Clouded Conflict
As someone who has been wounded in the conflict over Bible translation disputes because of my innate suspicion (as opposed to academic assurance), this book was enlightening. Although highly educated, Dr. Ward made easily accessible arguments that are extremely difficult to refute. At the same time, Mark maintains a delightful combination of winsomeness, respect, and grace dealing with a subject that is infamous for generating a whole lot of heat and very little light.
As far as the production of the audio version of this book, I was thrilled with Dr. Ward's wide range of voice inflection and first person speaking presence. His wit and humor, which could be detected in reading the book, was taken to a whole new level! I belly laughed at some of the remarks that only make a chuckle in the books reading. I eagerly await listening to his next audio book!
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- andrew m.
- 11-23-21
Very practical and thought-provoking book.
Very practical and thought-provoking book, regardless of your viewpoint or which translation you use.
also, it's really cool to have a book written and read by the same person because you get to hear him read it exactly how he thought it in his mind!
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- Travis Johnson
- 01-03-20
Loved it!
Authorized made a complex subject easy for public consumption. I was both informed and entertained. The delivery was well worth extra cost for the audio. But I also recommended the text version for review.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-23-21
A Pleasure to Read
As someone who was brought up to be KJV only and has begun to challenge these teachings in my own life this book makes you
1. Realize the barriers created by time in the understanding of the KJV
2. Equips you with knowledge to enable you to use the KJV in an appropriate way. While comparing with other versions as well as other study resources.
I love that Mark Ward does not try to demean or belittle the translation of the KJV but rather helps the reader to understand the roadblocks in the way of proper interpretation.
To anyone wanting to learn to properly exegete scripture I recommend this book to you. I absolutely loved it!
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- Eric B Mossman
- 06-13-22
Outstanding! Well-balanced & gracious.
A great exhortation for believers & Christian institutions! The organization, arguments, & audio reading are excellent. Thank you Mark!
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- jake
- 05-26-22
Graceful and Informative
For a subject that's often an intense topic and full of spirited arguments, Mark Ward is possibly the most gracious author I've read on this subject. He never takes pot shots at any group or translation, and holds the King James Bible in high regard. This is a very high quality summary of the ever changing language of English and how it affects the Holy Scriptures we daily read
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