It was not long before the possibly serious translation errors uncovered in the Vulgate threatened to force revision of existing church teachings. Erasmus pointed out some of these in 1516. An excelle...
Apologetics aims to convert believers into thinkers, and thinkers into believers.
There is no ‘inside’ that is worth reaching. What really matters is friendship, pure and simple.
The marginal notes to the Geneva Bible did more than provide theological elucidation at points of difficulty—the most profitable annotations upon the hard places mentioned on the title page of the wor...
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.[
To speak of the rise of Protestantism is to offer a controlling narrative that links these potentially disparate events as part of a greater, more significant movement. So persuasive was this emerging...
The explicit royal stipulation that all forms of annotation would be excluded ensured that the difficulties created for the establishment by the Geneva Bible would be avoided—or so, at any rate, it wa...
Literature offers us a different way of seeing things. The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt. My own eyes are not enough for m...
Lewis had discovered the calming and coping impact, not merely of reading literature, but of putting his feelings into his own words. It was as if the mental process of forging sentences tempered and...
Later Protestant writers would refer to this as the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae—the article by which the church stands or falls.
It’s the difference between utility and virtue. Many policy makers now think of education in functional terms. It’s about learning skills that will help students find employment—such as using a word p...
For Lewis, the narration of his own story was about the identification of a pattern of meaning. This enabled him to grasp the big picture and discern the grand story of all things, so that the snapsho...
Apologetics is both a science and an art. It is not just about knowledge; it is about wisdom. It’s like a skilled and experienced medical practitioner, who knows the theory of medicine well. But she h...
A further difference between the 1611 printing of the work and the 1613 reprint is of interest. Their variant translations of Ruth 3:15 led to the earlier printing being known as the Great He Bible (1...
The English of 1611 is not the English of the twenty-first century. It can mislead us, simply because English words have changed their meaning. For example, consider the sentence: For this we say unto...
Take Lewis’s argument from desire. He basically argues that we experience desires that no experience in this world seems able to satisfy. And when we see these experiences through the lens of the Chri...
Changes—the use of ye, thou, and so forth remains unchanged. The King James translators simply did not believe that they had the authority to make changes reflecting developments in the English langua...
The burdens of taxation, the lack of due representation, and the desire for freedom were unquestionably integral ingredients in the accumulation of grievances that drove many colonials to take up arms...
Further concerns were expressed over the king's increasingly obvious homosexual tendencies, which led to certain royal favorites being granted favors that were the subject of much comment and envy. Ro...
Curiously, Dawkins and Dennett remain firmly committed to the outmoded notion that science and religion are permanently in conflict—an idea often referred to as the warfare thesis. This is now regarde...