John McClean, Presbyterian minister, Vice-Principal at the Presbyterian Theological Centre, Sydney, where he teaches Systematic Theology has had a post published on the ABC Religion and Ethics web portal entitled: ‘That Scripture may speak like itself’: The KJB and the Word of God.
McClean begins:
If the KJB project was an attempt to reduce the political impact of the Bible, it is only one of many times when the church has tried to domesticate the Bible.
If the KJB project was an attempt to reduce the political impact of the Bible, it is only one of many times when the church has tried to domesticate the Bible.
It’s a dangerous book – the Bible. King James knew that. He was especially wary of the Geneva Bible. The Bible of the Puritans threatened to undermine the foundation of English society: his rule.
At the Hampton Court Conference in 1603 a passing mention of the need for a new English Bible caught James’s attention. He agreed that there was not yet a good English version and declared the Geneva Bible “the worst of all.” So began the project which resulted in the KJB.
For James, the Geneva Bible was a political threat…
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