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Has anyone here heard of or read or own the Christian Community Bible? Is this a good translation? Is it an approved translation? I am thinking of acquiring one and wonder if it is any good. In Christ, jurist12
 
I’ve had one for a few years but I have not done much more than flip through it. I hear that the notes and commentary are orthodox and pretty good. And they approach things froma 3rd world perspective as opposed to most commentaries which are written by people with a 1st world perspective.
And it is available online online:
bible.claret.org/bibles/

James
 
I have two copies of this Bible. My second copy is small enough to fit into my handbag 😃 and so I have become a Bible carrying Catholic 😃

I have read quite a bit from this Bible and it is the translation of the Claretian Fathers in the Philipinnes. The commentary for the most part is good, and yes, it beats the commentary of the NAB hands down.

Just think if you purchase the smaller sized one, you too can become a Bible carrying Catholic and you cannot be accused of never reading the Bible as you produce the evidence that negates such an accusation :D:clapping::dancing::rotfl::whistle::yup::bounce:

Maggie
 
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Has anyone here heard of or read or own the Christian Community Bible? Is this a good translation? Is it an approved translation? I am thinking of acquiring one and wonder if it is any good. In Christ, jurist12
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Yes, I have one copy given to us by my brother-in-law. It is an approved translation, and the commentaries are quite good. You should get one.

Gerry 🙂
 
I have one, very easy to read and the foot notes are ideal and it has been approved by the Church 👍

Yours in the Spirit

Pious.
 
I have two copies of this bible, but I am not happy with the notes. It waters down a lot of the meaning. I only purchased it because in Luke’s Gospel the words “Full of Grace” are properly translated. Some of the notes assume that the scripture writers made up things, if that were so, then the writers were not being truthful. Such comments only create doubts in the minds of simple people, so I really don’t understand how such comments are allowed in a Catholic edition of the Bible.
I might seem unbending but when translators and commentators compromise the Word of God, I just cannot tolerate it.

If one wants to understand the order of books, then this Bible fails in that area too. For whatever practical purpose, the books of the OT are pushed into places, where you are not used to finding them, if you have the book name tags, that too doesn’t justify why the ordering of the books needs to be changed. I noticed that although this bible claims to be Catholic, it does not have a Nihil Obstat, so I would be skeptical as to the use of this Bible for prayer or for study.
 
I like the text of the Christian Community Bible but the commentary is tasteless and as bad as the commentary of the 1986 NAB. I think that the commentary has a hint of Liberation Theology. I heard that the Christian Community Bible is not approved by some bishops.

Ja ne
 
I have a Christian Community Bible, Catholic Pastoral Edition. I don’t have any issues with it although I would normally use my D-R Bible.
 
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I have a Christian Community Bible, Catholic Pastoral Edition. I don’t have any issues with it although I would normally use my D-R Bible.
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I agree, it is not my main translation, but I do refer to it from time to time.
 
MaggieOH said:
Just think if you purchase the smaller sized one, you too can become a Bible carrying Catholic and you cannot be accused of never reading the Bible as you produce the evidence that negates such an accusation :D:clapping::dancing::rotfl::whistle::yup::bounce:

Maggie
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AMEN!👍
 
Rose_Commander said:
I like the text of the Christian Community Bible but the commentary is tasteless and as bad as the commentary of the 1986 NAB. I think that the commentary has a hint of Liberation Theology. I heard that the Christian Community Bible is not approved by some bishops.

Ja ne
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I have to take back my earlier comment. While it is true that some bishops don’t approve of the text and there is a tint of Liberation Theology in the commentary, the commentary tends to spiritualize the text. It is good to compare to the commentary to a more literal commentary like the Haydock or the Oxford Annotated Bible commentary.

The CCB is not my primary bible. I tend to use the Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha Extended Edition RSV and the Douay-Rheims Bible.

Ja ne.
 
Hi,

I think the New American Bible is more liberal than the Christian Community Bible. But both has Liberation Theology.

For a more detailed treatment of the Christian Community Bible, please go to:
bible-researcher.com/ccb.html
 
Porthos, you may be right, the commentaries may be more liberal than I thought. I like to read this Bible but not the commentaries below the text because I am wary on it. For those who want comparison of the Christian Community Bible 48th Edition to others, here’s a list of some of its parts (as per mmortal03’s list for RSV-CE at web.archive.org/web/20071218022237/http://umsis.miami.edu/~medmunds/RSVCEdiff.htm):

(You can download legally the complete CC Bible in PDF at: bibleclaret.org/website/?q=node/1338)

Romans 5.5: “because the Holy Spirit has been
given to us, pouring into our hearts
the love of God”
Romans 8.11: “Spirit who”
Luke 1.28: “Rejoice, full of grace”
Romans 9:5: “from their
race Christ was born, he who as God
is above all distinctions.”

Luke 1.34: “How can this be, since I am a virgin”
Luke 1.46-47: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit exults in God my savior”
Beatitudes uses “Fortunate”: “Fortunate are those who are poor in spirit…”
John 19.5: “Here is the man”
Matthew 19.5, 19:6: “one body”
1 Corinthians 6.16: “one flesh”
Luke 23.42: “into your kingdom”

Mark 14.63: “tore his clothes”
Luke 6.12: “Jesus went out into the hills”
Acts 8:3: uppercase “Church”
Galatians 4.27: “Rejoice, barren woman without children, break forth in shouts of joy, you who do not know the pains of childbirth, for many shall be the children of the forsaken mother, more than of the married woman”

Isaiah 7.14: uppercase “Virgin”
Psalm 1.1: “Blessed is the one”
Psalm 8.5: “little lower than the angels”
Matthew 16.18: “powers of death”
footnote “gates of Hades”
John 3.16: “only Son”
Exodus 15.13: “unfailing love”
Matthew 20.22-23, 26.27, 26.39, Mark 10.38-39, 14.23, 14.36, Luke 22.17, 22.20, 22.42, John 18.11, 1 Cor 11.25-26: “cup”
Song of Songs 2.10: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one!”

Song of Songs 2.12: “season of singing”
1 John 5.16-17 “sin which does not lead to death”
Psalms 2.11 (no verse 2.12) : “Serve the Lord with fear and fall at his feet; lest he be angry and you perish
when his anger suddenly flares. Blessed are all who take refuge in him!”
Psalms 110.3: “Yours is royal dignity from the day you were born in holy majesty. Like dew from the womb of the dawn, I have begotten you.”

John 6:64: “knew who would betray him”
Matthew 12.1: “and began to pick some heads of wheat”
Matthew 17:20: ‘move from here to there’
Mark 2.23: “they began to pick the heads of grain”
Mark 3.13: “Jesus went up into the hill country”
Mark 10.8: “one body”
Mark 15:6: “any prisoner the people asked for”
Luke 6.1: “disciples began to pick heads of grain, crushing them in their hands for food”
Luke 14.5: “If your lamb or your ox falls into a well on a Sabbath day, who among you doesn’t hurry
to pull it out?”
Acts 23.17: “Take this young man”
1 Corinthians 2.4: “of the Spirit and of power”
1 Corinthians 3.12: “straw”
1 Corinthians 10.18: “Consider the Israelites”
1 Corinthians 12.24: “and we cover them with more modesty because they are less presentable, whereas
the others do not need such attention.”
2 Corinthians 2.3: “I do not feel sad because of you”

2 Corinthians 5.19: “in Christ God reconciled the world with himself”
Ephesians 4.12: “So he prepared those who belong to him forthe ministry, in order to build up the Body of Christ”
Ephesians 5:31: “one flesh”
Ephesians 6.16: “Always hold in your hand the shield of faith to repel the flaming arrows of the devil”

Other Features:
Psalms: “double numbering” from 10 to 150.
 
More parts:

Genesis 3.15: “He will crush your head”
Matthew 24.28: “vultures”
1 Corinthians 16.14: “Let love be in all.”
John 8.58: “Truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
Romans 12.16: “Live in peace with one another.”
Matthew 26.50: “Friend, do what you came for”
Luke 2.14: “and Peace, on earth, to those whom God loves.”
Matthew 16.26: “What will one gain by winning the whole world if he destroys his soul?”
Revelation 3.15-16: “I will spit you out of my mouth”

Other Features:
  • Lexicon
  • Index of Readings for the Liturgical Year
 
nada122 said:
Hi,

I think the New American Bible is more liberal than the Christian Community Bible. But both has Liberation Theology.

For a more detailed treatment of the Christian Community Bible, please go to:
bible-researcher.com/ccb.html
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Are you sure you mean liberation theology and not liberal translation?
Liberation theology draws from marxism and I don’t think it is approved by the Church.
 
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