The Message: Gospel Of Luke

by Eugene H. Peterson (Translator)

Paperback

First published May 5, 2005

About the author

Eugene H. Peterson was a pastor, scholar, author, and poet. For many years he was James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also served as founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland. He had written over thirty books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language a contemporary translation of the Bible. After retiring from full-time teaching, Eugene and his wife Jan lived in the Big Sky Country of rural Montana. He died in October 2018.

Reviews

[Brendan Diamond · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an absolutely gorgeous translation of the most interesting of the Gospels. It's not, strictly speaking, an *accurate* representation of the original text, but rather an attempt to contextualise and modernise it. It loses some of the poetry of the KJV, NSRV, and CEV, but the clarity it provides is simply stunning.