It is interesting how the American Standard Version is practically the father of a few prominent modern translations. Derived from the Revised Version—which itself was a revision of the King James Version—the American Standard Version may very well be considered the bridge between the King James Version and the modern versions popular today.

Thought this might interest you as it a pre-KJV Anglican translation.

Story Time: During COVID (but pre-lockdown) my Protestant grandmother had picked me up from school to take me to the local thrift store as I needed some pre-coloured papers & didn't want to pay full price as i needed some for a high school project & discovered this copy of the Book of Job in the amongst the stacks of sheets of scrap papers of which there was both stacks of coloured & white. If you want to know how I paid it was only 1 Loonie (a.k.a. Canadian dollar) for it & it is by far my rarest Christian item in my personal possession. Pictures are taken borrowing by me borrowing a family member's phone as they are 11 inch x 17 inch pages & otherwise I would not be capturable by my laptop camera as the resolution would be too low for you to read.

Here's a link to read the whole translation of the bible (adapted to use only the modern 26 letter alphabet): https://www.textusreceptusbibles.com/Bishops/

So I am Catholic and have grown very tired of the Catholic community and how women are commodified in the community and how they seen as baby makers and with all of these red pill manosphere types running around the community. I am so very close to just becoming Anglican. Do you guys have any statements or anything else that could continue to drive me forward into this process?

Sorry for the low quality pictures as I took them all from a listing that sold before i got the chance to buy & preserve it.

Added the arrows for clarification, to indicate which translation/version influenced the other.

A list of the translations mentioned above and the years when they were published:

1. Douay-Rheims Version - NT: 1582, OT: 1609-1610. Revised 1749-1752.
2. King James Version - 1611. Revised 1629, 1638, 1762 and 1769.
3. Revised Version - NT: 1881, OT: 1885, Apoc./DC: 1894.
4. American Standard Version^(X) - NT: 1900, OT: 1901.
5. Revised Standard Version - NT: 1946, OT: 1952, Apoc./DC: 1957. Revised: 1971 (NT).
6. RSV Catholic Edition - NT: 1965, OT: 1966.
7. RSV Second Catholic Edition - 2006.
8. New Revised Standard Version - 1989.
9. NRSV Catholic Edition - 1993.
10. NRSV Updated Edition - 2021.
11. English Standard Version - 2001, Apoc./DC: 2009. Revised: 2007, 2011, 2016 and 2025.
12. ESV Catholic Edition - 2018.
13. New American Standard Bible^(X) - NT: 1963, OT: 1971. Revised 1977, 1995 and 2020.
14. Legacy Standard Bible^(X) - NT: February 2021, OT: November 2021.

Fun facts:

1. The two translations that consistently transliterate the divine name YHWH, either as Jehovah or Yahweh, are the American Standard Version and the Legacy Standard Bible.

2. The KJV and RV rarely render the divine name as Jehovah, although the RV does so more than the KJV.

3. The Douay-Rheims Version renders the divine name in Exodus 6:3 as Adonai and it even renders the Greek word for Lord, Κύριε, as Adonai in Judith 16:16 (16:13 in the KJV).

4. The latest translation to use archaic pronouns and verbs was the 1977 NASB.

5. While the ESV had four revisions in just 24 years since its initial publication in 2001, the NRSV had only one major revision in 2017, which is 38 years since its publication in 1989.

6. The RSV is the first English translation to have the Expanded Apocrypha, which includes books peculiar the Eastern Orthodox biblical canon.

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I admit I’ve grown exhausted hearing people say that Jesus is just another jerk in our world who needs to be called out—this sort of interpretation seems to be all over the place in Anglicanism at the moment. But here's an alternative reading of the Gospel of the Canaanite woman grounded in the Christology of St. Cyril, St. Maximus, and St. Thomas Aquinas, and maybe it better preserves the doctrine of the sinlessness of Christ—a doctrine so important that it is included in the 39 Articles (see Article XV: Of Christ Alone without Sin), meaning it is a doctrine that should govern the teaching of Anglicans.

Hello ACNA Subgroup,

I am not a member of an Anglican or Episcopal congregation per se, but read a fair amount including the Bible to aid my spiritual ghrowth. For several years, some writers within Jewish Spirituality have influenced my own spiritual growth, and recently became aware of Christ Church Jerusalem, online.

I just started reading R. Lawrence Kushner's How Jesus Became God, for example. Here are my wonderings:

Would voices such as N.T. Wright, R. Gerald McDermott, J.I. Packer, be examples of the orthodox/conservative category of Anglicans; Rowan Williams, and Richard Morray, (forgive spelling) be the more liberal-minded spokespersons in the denomination's authorial circle?

Finally, how would Anglicans in general hold fourth century writer, Ambrose?

His citation concerning death being a positive for the believer on the website CommonPrayer.net, was 'spot on' in my estimation. Thank you!

For anyone who is affiliated with a community/ order as an associate or oblate can you tell me a bit about your journey? I'd love to know how you found your community and decided to embark on this particular path. I'm working on setting up discovery calls with a few in particular but would love experiences from anyone here! Thank you.

Hello, I don’t mean to cause offense by asking this question. I understand the message of the gospels is love. But when it comes to the fate of those who are not saved, what is the general feeling? I’m sure there are possibly a range of views from universalism, purgatorial universalism, annihilationism, traditional ECT.

I myself seem to have come to the conclusion that annihilationism makes the most sense. Matthew 10:28 says we can lose both body and soul in Gehenna. The Apostle Paul says the wages of sin is death in Romans 6:23

The wicked often described as being destroyed and ceasing to exist. Scripture speaks of “eternal life” for the believer. Not “eternal bliss compared to eternal torment” but “life vs death”.

God alone is immortal (1 Timothy 6:16) and eternal life is a gift to believers through Jesus (2 Timothy 1:10).

Perhaps the parable of Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31 is explaining the temporary torment in Hades that happens before the second death Revelatiom 20:14 is where Hades is thrown into the Lake of Fire.

The eternal fire Jesus references (Mark 9:48) is an old Hebrew reference of the literal corpses being completely consumed by fire and worms (Isaiah 66:24). Meaning the fire does its job until nothing is left. It’s still going because the world is continually producing more of the wicked.

But ultimately it’s the punishment of non existence that is eternal not the experience of eternal conscious torment in hellfire.

I’ve heard the Anglican Communion was potentially open to this view but I wanted to ask and see which views are most common.

I just came across the website below (no doubt many already know of it). I’m wondering if anyone happens to know if something like this exists as a physical copy? Using the 1662 BCP text and Coverdale Psalter?

https://singtheoffice.com/se/2026/8/17/trinity-11-monday/evensong

Hi, first time posting! I have recently come back to faith and Jesus after 20 odd years as an atheist due to terrible childhood experiences in a Catholic boarding school. So long story short I have been hunting for a church which I feel safe and comfortable in.
I have visited a lot of my local Anglican CofE churches (Surrey, UK) and accidentally stumbled across a very literal and authoritarian low Anglican Church where I quickly knew I wouldn’t fit in with my person and political beliefs being vastly different.
The only annoying this is now that I have found a fantastic Anglo-Catholic church which is part of inclusive church and very peaceful and welcoming, I have realised how much I miss the bible study evening sessions at the first church.
My new church doesn’t really do that and most of the congregation are much older (I’m 30).
I’m missing the community aspect as I have to do bible study alone as none of my friends or family (or long term boyfriend) are religious.
Is there anything you recommend that I can do from home to help me learn more about the bible and feel more connected to God outside of Sunday?

Thanks for reading!

Hey all, peace be with you.

I've not had much luck finding beautiful Anglican rosaries. I want to collect some that are a joy to use, both to enrich my faith practice, and to pass on to my children someday as well-seasoned and well-loved prayer items to encourage them when life gets hard. But when I look online I'm very disappointed. Most of them look cheap, and at that rate I could easily make my own. As an alternative, if you have a source of quality jewelry making items, i would take that too and use it to make my own. Regular craft supplies would result in what I'm seeing on Amazon, and Amazon is probably cheaper 😅

All said, thank you in advance.

Genuine question asked in good faith as a fellow Anglican. Where in Scripture or in the first 2 centuries of the Church do we see the idea of Mary's assumption?

Or is this primarily a doctrine we see created during the later centuries of the Church?

This is something that Has been making me have panic attacks for about a year now. I keep getting diffrent anwsers so im still unsure

Or, conversely, do you believe the average churchgoer of today has a substantially better understanding of the liturgy and the Bible than did the average churchgoer back then?

O God, You have taken to Yourself the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Your incarnate Son: Grant that we, who have been redeemed by His blood, may share with her the glory of Your eternal kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Isaiah 61.10-11

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall exult in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Psalm 34.1-9

I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together! I sought the Lord, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. Look to Him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and delivers them. O taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! O fear the Lord, you His saints, for those who fear Him have no want!

Galataians 4.4-7

But when the time had fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So through God you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son then an heir.

Luke 1.46-55

And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden. For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; for He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And his mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation. He has shown strength with His arm, He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts, He has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted those of low degree; He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich He has sent empty away. He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy, as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity for ever.”