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Eugene Peterson was an American Presbyterian pastor, scholar, and author best known for The Message, a contemporary paraphrase of the Bible rendered in everyday American English. His writings on pastoral ministry, spiritual formation, and the integration of faith and ordinary life shaped a generation of pastors and readers.
The Message is a contemporary paraphrase of the Bible in idiomatic American English written by Eugene Peterson. Rather than a word-for-word translation, Peterson rendered the biblical text with the same street-level vitality he believed characterized the original Greek and Hebrew. It became one of the most widely read alternative Bible translations in American Protestantism.