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Edit: This just came in from Pine Curtain. Although Father Koopman of St. John's Abbey was supposed to have been interviewed, he was not. Instead they interviewed the Atheist craftsman they hired to decorate the book with authentic materials. They are certainly scaling back their visibility.
The press about the Bible falsely indicates that the St. John's Bible is the first such project in over five hundred years. On the contrary, there have been illustrated Bibles since then, going all the way up to the present day, long before St. John's got the idea to outsource their scriptorium work to an Atheist calligrapher using a poor translation of the Bible. The New Standard Revised Version of the Bible is, like Collegeville's insistence that it is a Catholic institution in good standing, rather dubious.
Here's an example from Luke 1:28
And he came to her and said, "Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you."
This poor translation partakes of the mendacious theology of Martin Luther and undermines the dogma of Mary's sinlessness. Luther feels, like the Old Liberal Bishop Donald Trautman, that the German will be confused by the correct translation and think of a "beer cask". It should read:
"Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with thee.
This is but one example where the NRSV falls short, but there are many, many more.
Not to be completely uncontroversial, Morning News was able to reveal the face of one of the perpetrators, Brother Jim Phillips, appears in the video.
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