Hearing 2 Corinthians
When I wrote about 2 Corinthians and the importance of story, I had not read this wonderful post. (HT: John Meunier.)
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Dynamic and Cognitive Equivalence
Paul Helm of Helm’s Deep tries to take a philosophers approach to a discussion of dynamic equivalence in translation, and does not do a good job. My primary complaint is that, in apparently trying to clarify definitions of different translation procedures he fails to define the term he uses most, cognitive equivalence, while seeming to…
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Family Pride and Amateur Radio
I just got the news that my mother and older sister have passed their Amateur Extra examinations with flying colors. My sister received a 100% grade, making a clean sweep of the exams for her. This makes five extra class amateur radio operators in my immediate family: Dad – Ray Neufeld – KT4B – silent…
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Christianity | Politics | War
The Problem with Revenge
It’s 9/11 and the events eight years ago are on most people’s minds. Many Christians will be praying today, as my wife wrote in her devotional. What will those prayers consist of? What is a Christian response? Shortly before the second gulf war began, I wrote an essay simply titled Revenge! I want to quote…
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Lord Save Us From Your Followers – The Movie
I think there are two major errors we can make as Christians: We can fail to have a message, and we can fail to be the message. If I follow the stereotypes I would say that liberals tend to fail in the first, and conservatives in the second. But I’m afraid we all tend to…
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Preaching until you Mean It
Shane Raynor is again stirring things up with a post on a Toolkit for Radical Methodists. He has proposed the idea of preaching faith until you have it, rather than waiting for faith. Since I recently posted some about doubt, I was interested in his phrase “wearing [your] doubt as a straitjacket.” I wonder if…
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Living Romans 12
Alan Knox has reposted a series on how the church can live Romans 12:9-21 along with some current thoughts. He points out that Romans 1-11 are theological, but starting with Romans 12, Paul begins to speak about how the church can live out the theology of the first chapters. This all reminded me of one…
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Theological German Blog
Dave Black linked to this post today for the Barth quote, but I will be visiting the site frequently, I think. To say that my theological German is rusty is an understatement, but I was surprised by how much I could get first pass. The word lists fill in. This could help scrape off some…
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Rick Mansfield on the TNIV and NIV2011
He has some good thoughts here, more on the technical and marketing side.
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New Revision of NIV Announced
Everybody is writing about this so I might as well get on the bandwagon. I’ll credit the hat tip to Better Bibles Blog. I’m pretty sure that’s where I read about it first. I’ll let you go there for the details. To be honest, though I’m obviously pretty intensively interested in Bible translation, having written…