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Your God Is Too Small
Phillips (1906–1982) was an Anglican minister, most famous for his contemporary translation of the New Testament. Actually, there's a good story about that. Phillips had observed that young people were struggling to understand the King James Bible - he also believed that people's familiarity with the old text and its beautiful literary value were obscuring the impact of the words and concepts. So he started work on a new translation - doing a lot of the work sitting in an air raid shelter while the Nazis pounded London. Publishers were reticent to touch it, until C.S. Lewis stepped in and persuaded his publisher. The book was very popular.
That was in 1947. In 1952 he published what is probably his second best known book, 'Your God is Too Small' (still in print today - my copy is a lovely old 1953 edition - already the sixth edition just one year into its publishing history).
The (apologetical) premise of the book is that when an individual reacts against the notion of God, they are invariably reacting against a particular limited construct of God (what/who God is). The fu
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John Bertram (J.B.) Phillips (1906-1982) was an Anglican priest and a Bible translator. He published his Letters to Young Churches in 1948 and the New Testament in Modern English in 1958. He was the author of many popular books including God Our Contemporary (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1960), New Testament Christianity (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1956), Plain Christianity (London: Wyvern Books, 1954), When God Was Man (New York: Abingdon Press), and Your God Is Too Small (New York: MacMillan Company, 1961).
Phillips was also a theological modernist who taught a form of universalism and the Fatherhood of God, denied Hell fire and the existence of Satan and demons, denied the verbal inspiration of Scripture, claimed that Jesus conformed His teaching to the ignorance of His day, was a skeptic in regard to supernatural miracles, and believed that Christ’s ascension was a parable. Consider some excerpts from his writings:
“... perhaps we might spend a moment considering what ‘hell-fire’ really means. ... Jesus surely used it symbolically to mean, not a place of torture, but the place for useless rubbish. THE REAL DANGER IS, NOT THAT WE MIGHT BE TORTURED FOR ENDLESS AGES, but that we might be found to be useless and only fit, so