Eugene Peterson

Eugene Hoiland Peterson (November 6, 1932 – October 22, 2018) was an American Presbyterian minister, scholar, theologian, author, and poet. He wrote over 30 books, including the Gold Medallion Book Award–winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Navpress Publishing Group, 2002), an idiomatic paraphrasing commentary and translation of the Bible into modern American English using a dynamic equivalence translation approach. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eugene H. Peterson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Acting

Born

1932-11-06 · Stanwood, Washington, USA

Died

2018-10-22