I was once a very active Evangelical Protestant so I can tell when things seem a little…off.

When I contrast it with its successor, the NLT, I’m not much more impressed, though it is a little better, admittedly, but still causes me to scratch my head in how it got an Imprimatur.

I have been reading the Catholic One Year Bible (which is Catholic Living Bible translation) for over a year now and I have seen many things in the translation that make me wonder how the Catholic Church gave the Living Translation an Imprimatur. ATC Publishers plans to release more information on the changes at a future date. There is currently no list of those changes available. In the process, they suggested changes to the text, which were accepted by Tyndale House. The bible text used in the NLT-CE is copyrighted in 2015.Ī committee of scholars from the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India reviewed the NLT. The text of the NLT was revised in 2004, with additional minor revisions in later years. The revision was released in 1996 under the name “New Living Translation.” Tyndale House published a Catholic Reference edition of the NLT in 2002, but that edition was never granted an imprimatur. In the late 1980s, Tyndale House Publishers invited a team of scholars to revise the text of the Living Bible. A Catholic Edition of the Living Bible was released, complete with the imprimatur, and I have occasionally run into copies of it over the years. Kenneth Taylor published the original Living Bible in 1971, in which he paraphrased the text of the American Standard Version (the precursor to the Revised Standard Version). If you would like me to take a look at a particular passage, feel free to ask!įor anyone unfamiliar with the NLT, here’s a brief summary of its history: The NLT serves as a scholarly update to the Living Bible. I have very little experience with the NLT prior to this, so I’m looking forward to getting familiar with it.

I recently purchased a copy, and I’ll be spending some quality time with it over the next several days, reading through the Gospel of Matthew and 1 Corinthians. ATC Publishers produced a few editions of the Bible in India, and last year, Tyndale House Publishers released a hardcover edition in the US. In 2016, the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) and Asian Trading Corporation (ATC) released the New Living Translation – Catholic Edition (NLT-CE).

The living bible paraphrased 1971