Revision Blessed

Clergymen last week explored their fresh copies of the new Revised Standard Version of the New Testament (TIME, Feb.11), in general like it.

P: Said New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "It will be widely read and will re-emphasize the place of the Bible in everyday life."

P: Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning agreed, with reservations, maintained that the Revised Standard will "not displace the King James Version ... in churches."

P: Dr. John S. Bonnell of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church found "many helpful changes where the meaning of the text is ambiguous or obscure," but feared that the Revised Standard might "bring some of the atmosphere of the street into . . . the sanctuary."

Catholic scholars outlined last week another great project in religious translation: a 72-volume edition of the writings of the early Church Fathers--including a number of texts never available in English. The edition will include major works of such early molders of Christian doctrine as Tertullian, Origen, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine and Chrysostom, down to Gregory the Great of the 6th Century. The seven-year task will be guided by Dr. Ludwig Schopp, editor and publisher of Traditio, an annual volume of learned essays, who has enlisted the aid of most U.S. Catholic authorities on the language, history and theology of the early Church.

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