{"id":9130,"date":"2011-04-25T10:01:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=9130"},"modified":"2011-04-25T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:40:16","slug":"king-james-bible-in-the-nyt-and-the-new-missal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/25\/king-james-bible-in-the-nyt-and-the-new-missal\/","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes on the KJ Bible&#8230; and the new missal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article in the Sunday New York Times, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/24\/weekinreview\/24mcgrath.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why the King James Bible Endures<\/a>&#8221; by Charles McGrath, contains an aside about the newly translated\u00a0missal.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting example of the new missal entering into broader cultural conversations.\u00a0McGrath, writer-at-large for the <em>NYTimes<\/em> and former editor of the <em>NYT Book Review<\/em>,\u00a0describes himself here as a &#8220;nonbeliever.&#8221; He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are countless new Bibles available now, many of them specialized: a Bible for couples, for gays and lesbians, for recovering addicts, for surfers, for skaters and skateboarders, not to mention a superheroes Bible for children. They are all &#8220;accessible,&#8221; but most are a little tone-deaf, lacking in grandeur and majesty, replacing &#8220;through a glasse, darkly,&#8221; for instance, with something along the lines of &#8220;like a dim image in a mirror.&#8221; But what this modernizing ignores is that the most powerful religious language is often a little elevated and incantatory, even ambiguous or just plain hard to understand. 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