Bøger udgivet af Jonathan Hayward

This Bible edition has a brittle spine.If you would be interested in a proper, leatherbound edition, please register at https://cjshayward.com/leatherbound/.Here is a nice, large, easy-to-read hardcover edition of the acclaimed Classic Orthodox Bible.The English of the praying Orthodox Church, the English of the prayers and Liturgies, the English of the common Orthodox Christians and the hymn of Scripture itself, is the English of Thee's and Thou's, not the street, the TV news, or the blog. And even if they can't put a finger on it, there is something more that is beautiful about the older classic language. As one literature professor said, "The problem with the King James Version is the translators' shaky grasp of Hebrew. The problem with all modern versions is the translators' increasingly shaky grasp of English." And there's more to it than that.The Classic Orthodox Bible has, as its foundation, Sir Lancelot Brenton's translation of the Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint. All other known translations that revised Sir Lancelot have revised his language to be newer and more modern; though this is not an important distinction, this text revised Sir Lancelot to be very slightly more archaic and read more authentically like the King James Version. There have been multiple changes made, though not all that many for a new Bible version. In any case the attempt was made to cut with the grain rather than against it, and to preserve and enhance a rendering that is the English of the praying Orthodox Church.A number of metaphors present themselves to the simple Christian trying to choose rightly from all the Bible versions available: there are murky waters, or a dizzying array, or a labyrinth. Whatever name is given to this confusing task, the Classic Orthodox Bible comes with a roadmap that comments not just itself, the Classic Orthodox Bible (COB), but also the Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible (EOB), English Standard Version (ESV), King James Version (KJV, also called the Authorized Version or AV), the Message, New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS), New International Version (NIV), New Jerusalem Bible (NJB), New King James Version (NKJV), New Living Translation (NLT), Orthodox Study Bible (OSB), and Revised Standard Versiosn (RSV).But the advice is simple.If you only read version, read the Orthodox Study Bible, from http://tinyurl.com/orthodox-study-bible.But if you read more, as there is good reason, read the Classic Orthodox Bible.

Dear Reader;"The Good Parts" is originally a reference to some famous guidance provided by computer scientist Douglas Crockford, in the programming language JavaScript, where there are some good parts and some bad parts.This collection is meant to be a "The Good Parts" for my works at CJSHayward.com, answering the question, "Out of all the works you have written, which ones would you most recommend to an Orthodox reader now?" About one in four works made the cut, and this collection represents the original content of CSHayward.com.As a collection not organized above alphabetical order, this is something you can skip through, reading certain works and not others, and read them in any particular order you want. Please consider it to be not a single work, but a 1000 page library between two covers. And not something you have to work through.If you'd like an initial suggestion for what to read, I would pick out "The Angelic Letters" (p. 24) ""Religion and Science" Is Not Just Intelligent Design vs. Evolution" (700), "A Canticle to Holy, Blessed Solipsism" (99), "Plato: The Allegory of the... Flickering Screen?" (687), "Doxology" (200) and "The Consolation of Theology" (113).The change in the listing of my name from "C.J.S. Hayward" to "C.S. Hayward" is in the wake of Facebook community, I have been told, where my name trilettered to "CSH", for "C.S. Hayward."I pray that this collection may somehow be of benefit to you.Dive in!Much Love,"C.S. Hayward"