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You
know high school seniors that will soon be going to college. You
could wise them up with a smart little volume entitled Your First
Year At College. One chapter on “Ten Commandments for a
College Freshman” really gets down where the kids live and
talks their language as well as talks sense. Even you will enjoy
notes on “The Girl You Left Behind” and “To Hell
with God,” and will agree that every youth should read such
wisdom. And yet it is Christian without being preachery. 2.95 in
attractive hard cover.
Evolution
and the Christian Doctrine of Creation by Richard H. Overman is
an effort to show that evolution must be explained by referring both
to the objective categories of science and the subjective categories
of Biblical thought. Mr. Overman is an M.D. and is a believer in God
as creator and sustainer of the world. Having also a philosophical
background, he deals with Darwin, Whitehead, the laws of Nature, and
even Jewish understandings of creation. The price is 7.50, which is
really too high, but books are like everything else. We pay that much
for the daily paper in just three months or so, and a weighty book
like this, rich in information about a difficult subject, is of more
value than the paper.
The
Death of God Debate is what the title implies a discussion of the
pros and cons by a dozen or so theologians, including
Hamilton and Altizer, the instigators of this movement that has now
subsided to the level where a more critical view can be taken.
Questions are raised and answered, ideas are exchanged, evaluations
made. The advocates of this theory are asked such things as “If
there is no God, then is there no judgment?” and “What
God are you talking about when you say God is dead?” These and
others are answered in the debate. Only 2.65 in soft cover.
Lovers
of C. S. Lewis will be interested in two recent publications: C. S.
Lewis: Defender of the Faith by Richard Cunningham and Letters
to An American Lady by C. S. Lewis. The first title is 5.00 and
the second is 3.95.
Once
again we invite you as a subscriber to this journal to join our
Credit Plan, which allows you to purchase any or all books mentioned
in this column (or others we might order for you) and pay for them at
only 5.00 a month, or 10% of balance, whichever is higher, and with
no carrying charges. This enables you to get the books you want now,
pay for them on an easy plan, and still pay no more. This makes
possible larger orders, such as all 17 volumes of Barclay’s
Daily Bible Study at 39.50 (enthusiastically recommended), or
all the bound volumes of Mission Messenger, or the 21-volume
set of Great Texts of the Bible at the special price of 56.25,
or Kittel’s Theological Dictionary (five volumes now
ready at 22.50 each), or Wuests’ Word Studies, 4 volumes
for 24.95.
We
have a new supply of the popular Making Ethical Decisions. It
is only l.00. The chapter on “Everybody Does It—Why
Shouldn’t I?” will especially interest you.
From
Scotland we are buying William Barclay’s Flesh and Spirit,
which is an examination of Gal. 5:19-23, in paperback, and can
sell it to you for 2.00, counting postage.
For
only 85 cents you can buy a little booklet about a most controversial
figure: “Bishop Pike: Ham, heretic or Hero?”
One
does not find much good material on the Christian life, that is, the
problem of living as a Christian in our complex world. Paul Hessert
has done it in “Christian Life,” which is in the series
on New Directions in Theology Today. An example: “The
Christian life is no accident. It is a disciplined ordering of
thought and activity directed toward Christian maturity,” He
sees Christianity more in terms of a life to be lived than as a
theology to be espoused. A handsome paperback for only 1.95.
Protestant-Catholic Marriages is written by both pastors and priests, and it is the kind of material one should have on hand, not only for his own information, but also as a means of helping others. While the four Dutch theologians agree that mixed marriages are hazardous, their approach is sympathetic and realistic. Only 1.65 in paperback.
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