The NIV Reconsidered: A Fresh Look at a Popular Translation

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The NIV Reconsidered: A Fresh Look at a Popular Translation. Earl Radmacher and Zane C. Hodges. Dallas: Redención Viva, 1990. 155 pp. Paper, $8.95. This is an important book on a major topic for English-speaking Christians. It is also long overdue. First of all this is neither a “chain saw” review nor a nit-picking one.
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The Words of the Gospel: “SAVED”

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“Are you saved, sir?” the Salvation Army lassie asked the very distinguished-looking clergyman. The time was the late 1800’s. and the scene was a railway carriage in England. The bishop (for she had dared to witness to one of England’s most learned bishops!) answered, “Do you mean esothen, sozomai, or sothesomai? (He was throwing the
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The New Revised Standard Version: A Review

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I. Introduction In May of this year the latest and most thoroughgoing revision of the RSV appeared, sponsored by the National Council of Churches. I must confess that I have been having my morning devotions in the NRSV for the last several months.1 The reason for this is that I have been asked by our
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Little Rita’s Prayer

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In order to be effective a prayer needn’t be long or flowery. In fact, if it’s a public prayer it had better not be long–you might bore your human audience. It better not be too flowery either–you will turn off the young and the practical. That’s one reason I’ve always liked a little girl’s prayer
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We Believe In: Water Baptism

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“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matt 28:19, 20 I.
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Tyndale’s New Testament

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Tyndale’s New Testament. Translated from the Greek by William Tyndale. Edited and introduced by David Daniell. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. 429 pp. Cloth, $28.95. King Henry VIII’s Chancellor “for all seasons,” Sir Thomas More, called Tyndale “a beast,” one of the “hell-hounds that the devil bath in his kennel,” discharging a
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We Believe In: Good Works

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“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” —Ephesians 2:10, emphasis supplied I. Introduction “You Protestants,” said the pious and elderly lady standing at the back of St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C. to the teenage art school student (who was
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Absolutely Free! A Biblical Reply to Lordship Salvation

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Absolutely Free! A Biblical Reply to Lordship Salvation. By Zane C. Hodges. Dallas and Grand Rapids: Redención Viva and Zondervan Publishing House, 1989. 238 pp. Cloth, $14.95. If salvation is an important subject to Christians (and it is!), this is a very important book. Zondervan was wise to publish both sides of the current controversy
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We Believe: Jesus Is Lord

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“For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.” —Romans 14:8, 9 I.
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