“Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible with Cambridge
Cambridge University, the original printer of the King James Bible, has a dedicated mini-site in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the KJV.
Cambridge University, the original printer of the King James Bible, has a dedicated mini-site in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the KJV.
Barbara G. Wheeler is the former longtime president of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York, a leading Presbyterian seminary. In November 2003, Wheeler engaged in a widely followed debate on gay ordination with Richard J. Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., a leading evangelical institution. The exchange, titled “Strangers: A Dialogue About […]
Read a Jan. 8, 2011, New York Times op-ed about the significance of the King James Bible.
The Rev. Canon Richard T. Nolan is a retired Episcopal priest who has taught philosophy and religion at a number of colleges and universities. He and his partner, Robert C. Pingpank, have been together for more than 50 years, and Nolan says they can testify to the “ordinariness” of their lives. They have a website that tells their story. […]
Read a collection of essays by leading writers on the importance of the King James Version. It was published in The Guardian newspaper on Feb. 19, 2011.
“Let Us Now Praise KJV” is a Feb. 16, 2011, column by Scott McLemee in the periodical Inside Higher Ed that claims the King James Bible “is the only one with any flavor; the rest are as appetizing as a sawdust sandwich.”
Read “The Once and Future Bible: Why We Still Need the KJV,” a March 25, 2011, column at Crosswalk.com by Stan Guthrie.
Read an April 11, 2011, “Sightings” essay by Martin Marty that discusses the evangelical penchant for adopting Bible translations other than the KJV. Marty also refers to an essay on the KJV by Diarmaid MacCulloch in the Feb. 3, 2011, London Review of Books.
Read an essay in the spring 2011 issue of Intelligent Life magazine by English Catholic author Ann Wroe, who praises the beauty of the KJV.