Acknowledgments and Abbreviations
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I thank Michael Baughen, Richard Bewes and Hugh Palmer, who all followed me as Rectors of All Souls, for their friendship and leadership, and for allowing me to dedicate this book to them. I also thank Frances Whitehead, my longstanding and longsuffering secretary, who has served me under all three Rectors and who has typed this manuscript. And third I thank Tyler Wigg Stevenson, my current Study Assistant, who has read widely on “church,” has made many suggestions, and has helped me to write the Preface.
ABBREVIATIONS
NABThe New American Bible (NT 1970; OT 1969)
NEBThe New English Bible (NT 1961; OT 1970)
NIVNew International Version (1973, 1978, 1984)
NJBThe New Jerusalem Bible (1985)
REBThe Revised English Bible (1989)
RSVThe Revised Standard Version of the Bible (NT 1946; second edition 1971; OT 1958)