Why is the New Revised Standard Version Bible so popular among mainline Protestant denominations?

[Reformed1689]

Oh, by the way, isn't the English Standard Version of the Bible also a revision of the Revised Standard Version (like the New Revised Standard Version)?

Just a more conservative take on verses like the one you referred to from the Book of Isaiah?

Yes

 

[alexander284]

The CEB is gaining ground too. It has displaced the NRSV. Calvin College and Seminary and I think the CRC are all using the CEB.

Is this a case of going from bad to worse?

 

[Yeshua1]

Is this a case of going from bad to worse?

More like from same to same!