Contents • • • • • • • • Early life [ ] Phillips was born in,. He was educated at in London and took an Honors Degree in Classics and English from. He was ordained an clergyman in the in 1930. [ ] Career [ ] During, while a minister at Church of the Good Shepherd in, he found the young people in his church did not understand the of the Bible. He used the time in the during the, to begin a translation of the into, starting with the. The results appealed to the young people who found it easier to understand.

[ ] Post-war [ ] Encouraged by their feedback, after the war he continued to work the rest into colloquial English. At first he couldn't find a publisher but with help from writer and Christian apologist, Geoffrey Bles agreed. Portions were published starting with Letters to Young Churches in 1947, which received Lewis' backing. In 1952 he added the.

In 1955 he added and titled it The Young Church in Action. In 1957 he added. The final compilation was published in 1958 as for which he is now best known. This was revised and republished in 1961 and then again in 1972. Wrote of Phillips, '.he can make St.

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In his Preface to the Schools Edition of his 1959 version of the New Testament, Phillips states that he 'wrote for the young people who belonged to my youth club, most of them not much above school-leaving age, and I undertook the work simply because I found that the Authorised Version was not intelligible to them.' Phillips also translated parts of the. In 1963 he released translations of 1-39,,, and. This was titled. After that, he did not translate the Old Testament any further. He talked of the revelation he received as he translated the New Testament, describing it as 'extraordinarily alive' unlike any experience he had with non-scriptural ancient texts. He referred to the scriptures speaking to his life in an 'uncanny way' similarly to the way the author of talks.

New Testament in Modern English J.B. Phillips started his ministry as pastor to the Young People's Club at the Church of the Good Shepherd in London. The New Testament in Modern English was originally written for the benefit of Phillips' youth group; it was later published more widely in response to popular demand. The language is up-to-date and forceful, involving the reader in the dramatic events and powerful teaching of the New Testament.

[ ] Personal life [ ] Phillips had a in his 20s and also suffered from clinical depression throughout his life. He wrote an autobiography, The Price of Success, published two years after his death, and his life was further detailed in a book, The Wounded Healer, by his wife Vera and co-writer Rev Edwin Robertson. Death [ ] Phillips died in in in 1982. Goro Daimon 2k2 Um Rar. [ ] Bibliography [ ] • Quiet Times. A Book for Private Prayer 1938 • Reality in Religion 1938 • A Translation of the New Testament Epistles 1947 • Making Men Whole 1952 (revised 1955) • The Gospels in Modern English 1952 • Your God is Too Small 1953 • Plain Christianity: and Other Broadcast Talks 1954 • Appointment with God: Some Thoughts on Holy Communion 1954 • The Young Church in Action 1955 • When God was Man 1955 • The Church Under the Cross 1956 • New Testament Christianity 1956 • Letters to Young Churches 1957 • The Inside Story: In Modern English as told in Luke, John, Acts and Romans 1957 • St. Luke's Life of Christ 1957 • God With Us. A Message for Christmas.