Peter Carrell Anglican Down Under On Bible translations
Augustine Tanner-Ihm ViaMedia.News Where is the Colour? The CEEC Commissioning of Overseers: A Theological and Ecclesiological Critique
Joanne Woolway Grenfell Civil Society Safeguarding: How the Church of England is learning from past events
[This article is behind a paywall, but has been reproduced in full in a Church of England press release.]
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The desolation of the Church of England
The will of the Holy Spirit is best discerned collectively as the Holy Spirit was given to the whole church at Pentecost, and not just to individuals or the selective few, eg the western elite. I also doubt whether the selection of informal overseers was put through any vigorous and lengthy equal opportunities process as these are essentially volunteers with decades of experience in leadership who have stepped forward at short notice to fill a pastoral emergency not of their making. This no doubt provides an open invitation to pile in with any and every possible ‘woke’ reason to condemn… Read more »
“… pile in with any and every possible ‘woke’ reason to condemn them.” I like the term ‘woke’…verily I say unto to you it is so Jesus don’t you find? “Keep awake then, for you do not know when the master of the house will come. ….and what I say to you I say to everyone: Keep awake” ( from the ‘little apocalypse’ of Mark 13. REB).
The article on translations by Peter Carrell is ok; but it doesn’t add much to the treatment of the same subject by John Barton in, A History of the Bible. My preferred English translation is the R.E.B. about which Barton writes: ” A revised version of [the NEB] appeared in 1989, but–sadly I think- has not been widely used, since the NSRV has proved so popular. The NEB/REB style attempts to render the biblical text as though it was written it had been written yesterday.” I prefer the literary style of the REB to that of NRSV which is the… Read more »