Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible
The highly acclaimed Scottish composer James MacMillan writes in his blog, on the telegraph website, how the presence of the King James Bible was an "inescapable and powerful influence" on him, and how the KJV is a "treasury of beautiful poetry that many different kinds of composers over the centuries have been moved to produce works of numinous profundity". In a new year address recorded for the BBC, Dr Rowan Williams called on people of all faiths to celebrate the astonishing contribution made by the King James Bible 400 years ago. "Whether you're a Christian or belong to another religion - or whether you have nothing you'd want to call a religion at all - some sort of big picture matters," he says. "If we are going to talk about a 'big society', that will need a big Holyvibe picture - a picture of what human beings are really like and why they're so unique and precious. The King James Bible is one of the...