Eugene Peterson does it again

The Tominthebox News Network reports that Eugene Peterson, the man behind The Message, has set out to make the writings of our Puritan forefathers more accessible to today's readers. The question driving Peterson's work: "How would John Owen have talked if he lived today?"

From the article:

Original:
"The effect, also, and actual product of the work itself, or what is accomplished and fulfilled by the death, blood-shedding, or oblation of Jesus Christ, is no less clearly manifested, but is as fully, and very often more distinctly, expressed; — as, first, Reconciliation with God, by removing and slaying the enmity that was between him and us;"

The Puritan Message:
"Here's what's happening people. When Jesus died it really worked things out. Everything is totally cool between us and God now."

The Puritan Message: The Writings of John Owen condenses volumes of Owen's writings into a single 250 book. Copies are available starting at $19.95 for the hardback edition.