In this video, Pastor Ben Miller interviews Brad Littlejohn and Brad Belschner about their project to modernize/translate the work of Richard Hooker into modern English. Why does someone who wrote in English need translating? And why are his thoughts still of immense value today?
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Discussion Points
00:35: Why does Hooker need modernizing?
1:45: The odd beauty of Hooker’s style
2:15: The birth of the project
3:00: How we carried out the project
3:50: About the first volume, Radicalism
4:25: Comparative reading: passage from the original
5:20: Comparative reading: passage from the modernization
6:00: How is this project of value for modern Christians?
7:15: What we can learn from Hooker’s defense of the status quo?