BOOK NOTES

 

War and Conscience in America is written to help us think more searchingly about the agonizing problems raised by war, and about the moral issues confronting young men who face military service. The chapter on the conscientious objector is especially informative. Its treatment of the changing nature of war is also provocative. Only 1.65 in paperback.

Voices of Action is edited by Jimmie Lovell, editor of Action magazine, who speaks of the several writers of the volume as “my boys,” referring we suppose to the closeness existing between him and them. They include such names as Jimmy Allen, Bill Banowsky, Pat Boone, Wes Reagan, Don McGaughey, John Allen Chalk, and other young princes of the church. Their sermons and essays drawn from meaningful experiences in Christian service—voices of action! Don McGaughey talks about “Christ and the Disinherited,” and he takes the reader to inner-city and describes the controversial “House of the Carpenter.” Prentice Meador in his “The Gospel According to Love” contends that one starts living when he starts loving (might it also be said the other way?). Pat Boone writes only briefly, but he writes well, and you will appreciate his point that Jesus came to show that a man wins by losing. Let us say that in this volume one has come of the younger and more responsible voices within Churches of Christ. The “New Look” is here too. It is too highly priced at 3.95, but to show how much we love Jimmie Lovell and his publisher we will give a free subscription to Restoration Review, or a renewal, to everyone who buys this volume. And it is indeed worth your reading.

The New Testament: An Introduction for the General Reader by Oscar Cullmann is available at only 1.95 in paperback, and we urge you to add this informative book to your library. It gives a history of the NT text and an introduction to the various books, showing how they became a part of the Bible, how they came to be written, etc.

The New Testament and Criticism by George Eldon Ladd is a similar kind of book, but it goes further in discussing form criticism, historical criticism, and literary criticism, as well as textural criticism. The subjects may be weighty, but the points are clearly set forth and any intelligent Christian can gain much by a careful study. It is 3.9.5.

Voices of Concern by Robert Meyers has taken its place among the controversial publications among Churches of Christ, a category of materials nor nearly as extensive as it should be. We simply have not been as critical of ourselves as we should have been, and we are consequently the weaker for it, But Voices of Concern provides some criticism that many believe is vitally needed, both from those who have left us and those who have remained. It is important that they be heard.

This book may soon be our of print, despite the success of its publication. But we are now a maturing people and we are learning to criticize ourselves, so other and more recent critical materials will be coming forth. Yet Voices of Concern will go down in our history as an avant garde in this area and its significance will grow with the years.

If you plan to own a copy of this provocative volume, we urge you to act now, for only a few hundred copies remain to be sold. The price is 3.50, Collectors will one day pay three times that. Order from us.

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