The New Testament, as translated by the influential Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart, is bad. But that’s what makes it such a good read for Christians who need their settled understandings tweaked.

I put David Bentley Hart in the category of a one-of-a-kind. Sometimes it sounds like Christian culture wars because it is.

David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of “etsi doctrina non daretur,” “as if doctrine is not given.” Reproducing the texts’ often fragmentary formulations without augmentation or correction, he has produced a pitilessly literal translation, one that captures the texts’ impenetrability and unfinished quality while awakening readers to an uncanniness that often lies.

A Review of David Bentley Hart's The New Testament: A Translation Brett Beasley When Jonathan Ives and Steve Jobs set out to design the iMac, most computers were bulky beige boxes.

When a theologian of the stature of David Bentley Hart offers a “pitilessly literal translation” of the New Testament that is “not shaped by later theological and doctrinal history” and aims to make “the familiar strange, novel, and perhaps newly compelling,” we are eager to see the result.

Johnson, whom Boswell often found poring over his large copy of the Greek New Testament, would appreciate this translation by David Bentley Hart, an American academic, philosopher and member of the Orthodox Church. It recognises the extreme difficulty of the texts that we all think we know, or understand, so well; and it frequently shocks us.

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David Bentley Hart insists that what sets his effort apart from other translations is its determination to get us as close to the New Testament's original revolutionary fire as possible.

If that is Hart’s project — viz., the Church has manipulated and manipulates the New Testament — then, this seriously troubles me. For, the New Testament is a product of the Church. It is For, the New Testament is a product of the Church.

The New Testament: A Translation by david bentley hart yale, 616 pages, $35. D avid Bentley Hart’s new single-handed translation of the New Testament will strike the fair-minded reader by turns as startling, incisive, audacious, smug, shrewd, and quirky to the point of exasperation: everything, in short, the author intended it to be.