Portions of the New Testament were published after the war, starting with "Letters to Young Churches" in 1947, which received C.S. Lewis' backing. In 1952 he added the Gospels. In 1955 he added the Acts of the Apostles and entitled it "The Young Church in Action". In 1957 he added The Book of Revelation. The final compilation was published in 1958 as "The New Testament in Modern English" for which he is now best known. This was revised and republished in 1961 and then again in 1972. "Time Magazine" wrote of Phillips, "...he can make St. Paul sound as contemporary as the preacher down the street. Seeking to transmit freshness and life across the centuries". In his Preface to the Schools Edition of his 1959 version of the New Testament, Phillips states that he "wrote for the young people who belonged to my youth club, most of them not much above school-leaving age, and I undertook the work simply because I found that the Authorised Version was not intelligible to them".