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German Protestants have rejected a joint project to revise the standard German translation of the Bible with the Roman Catholic Church last Thursday, furthering tensions between Protestants and Catholics.
According to Reuters, the current dispute was provoked as the Vatican intended to revise the standard German Bible according to its official directive. Despite Protestants’ favor for original Biblical texts in ancient Hebrew and Greek, the Vatican requires the revision to conform to a Latin translation – traditionally the official language of reference in Catholicism.
“This directive has criteria that the Protestant side cannot accept,” said Lutheran Bishop Wolfgang Huber, chairperson of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), according to Reuters.
German Catholics and Protestants produced the current standard German Bible in the 1980s and have long used it in ecumenical services.
A respected German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Daily, defended Protestants, saying they had made concessions to Catholics for years in the Bible project and could no longer let themselves be “dictated to by Rome,” Reuters reported.
Cardinal Karl Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz, President of the Conference of German Catholic Bishops, lamented that Protestants did not trust the Catholics to produce an accurate translation, Reuters reported further.
christianpost.com/article/europe/543/section/protestant-catholic.relations.tense.over.german.bible.revision/1.htm
According to Reuters, the current dispute was provoked as the Vatican intended to revise the standard German Bible according to its official directive. Despite Protestants’ favor for original Biblical texts in ancient Hebrew and Greek, the Vatican requires the revision to conform to a Latin translation – traditionally the official language of reference in Catholicism.
“This directive has criteria that the Protestant side cannot accept,” said Lutheran Bishop Wolfgang Huber, chairperson of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), according to Reuters.
German Catholics and Protestants produced the current standard German Bible in the 1980s and have long used it in ecumenical services.
A respected German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Daily, defended Protestants, saying they had made concessions to Catholics for years in the Bible project and could no longer let themselves be “dictated to by Rome,” Reuters reported.
Cardinal Karl Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz, President of the Conference of German Catholic Bishops, lamented that Protestants did not trust the Catholics to produce an accurate translation, Reuters reported further.
christianpost.com/article/europe/543/section/protestant-catholic.relations.tense.over.german.bible.revision/1.htm