BOOK NOTES

 

Pat Boone’s A New Song is really taking hold. Our first supply was quickly exhausted with orders still coming in. We will have a fresh supply by the time you write us. 4.95 is apparently not too much for such a dynamic story. We will fill your order the day it arrives. We will be glad to have your response to it, which, with your permission, will be forwarded to Pat and Shirley Boone. The book is already in its second printing. J. D. Bales of Harding College plans to issue a book in answer to A New Song, but word from Searcy is that he needs financing to get it out. Pat might well afford to underwrite J. D.’s book, for Pat seems to thrive on opposition. Nothing like being banned in Boston, you know, or Searcy or Nashville or somewhere.

This will be our last mention of Voices of Concern: Studies in Church Christism by Robert Meyers. The book is now out of print, the few remaining copies being those in bookstores here and there. I suppose we have had 300 of them, but now we have about a dozen left. You should order at once if you’ve planned to pick up this volume that will not be reissued. 3.50.

Hazard of the Die is a study of the Restoration Movement in general and of Tolbert Fanning in particular. It deserves a place in your Restoration library. 4.95.

You may have read in the public press of how The New English Bible is selling so well, already in the millions. It is even an offering of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and it is being acclaimed as the most significant publication of this century. One outstanding virtue, so often mentioned by reviewers, is its clarity. If you want obscure passages to come alive, then try the NEB. Handsomely bound. 8.95.

Remember Dr. Mudd, who gave medical aid to Lincoln’s assassin and who was given a long prison term for doing so? Suppose the worst man in the world applied to the best surgeon in the world for relief from a condition that would prove fatal unless relieved by surgery. Should the surgeon operate? With that question Karl Menninger introduces Joseph Fletcher’s book Morals and Medicine. It discusses such questions as our right to know the truth, fertility control, artificial insemination, sterilization. The new paperback edition is only 2.45.

We recommend a little paperback on Three Prophets of Religious Liberalism, which includes writings of Channing, Emerson, and Parker. These men have much to say to the “now” generation, and they are good tonic for any generation. Parker, for instance, insists that there is a greater difference between Jesus and the Christian sects of today than there was between Jesus and a pagan like Plato. Emerson’s part is the famous Divinity School Address, in which he criticizes the clergy before a graduating class of clergymen! Channing’s piece shows one what Unitarians originally believed, which was more anti-Trinitarian than Unitarian. These men were contemporaries of Alexander Campbell and one cannot help but compare their views and identify them as common spirits in their rejection of formalism in the pulpit. Only 1.45.

It is time to send us your order for this year’s Restoration Review, which will be bound under the title of The New Humanity. You need send no money. We will bill you when we send the book, the price being only 3.00.
 

 

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