J b phillips biography of abraham lincoln

English priest and Bible translator

John Bertram Phillips or J.

J b phillips biography of abraham lincoln

B. Phillips (16 September 1906 – 21 July 1982) was an English Bible translator, author and Anglican clergyman. He is most noted for his The New Testament in Modern English.

Early life

Phillips was born in Barnes, then in Surrey but now in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

He was educated at Emanuel School in London and graduated with an Honours Degree in Classics and English from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After training for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, he was ordained a clergyman in the Church of England in 1930 (both deacon and priest in the same year).^[1]

Career

During World War II, while vicar of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Lee, London (1940-44),^[1] he found the young people in his church did not understand the Authorised Version of the Bible.

He used the time in the bomb shelters during the London Blitz to begin a translation of