"Worship the Lord in the beauty of Holiness. . . Come let us adore Him." ---- You give the rational for the purchace of a "Premium" Bible which so many scorn as overblown and excessive in price... so many beautiful bibles . . . so little time... Thankfully, we can make that choice individually.
There must be something Biblical in the water these days. I was just mulling a video about Bible reading, and this comes up on your channel. I have been re-reading the Bible with an eye towards the internal architecture of each book-not merely the immediate context, but the function of each passage in the overall project of the author. From that perspective, the typography of the Bible that one is reading really becomes a help or hindrance, because it either encourages long continuous reading, dwelling in a book, or it constrains the reader to verses or sections.
The other day I formulated the hypothesis, "Dale just reuses the coffee-making footage, and provides different voice-overs for each episode." But the observation was that today's coffee-making scene was different from what I remember. Thus, the observation refuted either my hypothesis or my memory
I agree that aesthetics matter in religion and that modernism has stripped the Church of its beauty. Thankfully, I see the beginning of a resurgence of the appreciation of beauty. By the way, that's a beautiful Latin Bible. I have the old paperback edition, but this one knocks it out of the park!
I really like the way you brought the Anglican Office Book into the video and declared that there still are some beautiful things left in the world. As for Christian Prayer, I believe the more expensive one volume edition published by Collins isn't as bad as the one in your video. The font is a bit better, and ... that dreadful art is absent from the Collins edition. I still prefer the Anglican Breviary or the Anglican Office Book over the Christian Prayer any day. Thanks for the thoughtful video.
Gotta hand it to Orthodox publishers, they seem to generally put out truly beautiful books. I wonder if it's the tradition of iconography? To me it almost seems sacrilege for a Bible or a prayer book to be ugly
