BOOK NOTES

 

Thoughts on Unity by Stan Paregien, like Voices of Concern, is likely to be unattainable before long. It is the thinking of 18 men on unity and fellowship, everyone from Jimmy Allen to Carl Ketcherside to Ferrell Jenkins to Ronald Osborne. Disciples, Christian Churches, and Churches of Christ all have representative thinkers. It is a well published volume, handsome and durable. 5.95.

We will send you three books, all for 5.00, or you can buy them separately. The God Who is There (2.50), Death in the City (1.95), and Escape from Reason (1.25), all popular issues by Francis Schaeffer. His latest, He is There and He is not Silent is 1.95, which you can order extra or substitute for any of the other three. Any of these three for 5.00. We recommend these most highly.

We will sell our remaining copies of Pat Boone’s A New Song for only 4.00, which is the handsome hardcover and well worthy of a permanent place in your library. Or we’ll send the new paperback of the same for 1.00.

If you enjoyed God’s Smuggler, you will appreciate Christian Prisoners in Russia for 1.25. And for only 1.00 we’ll send Where Do I Go from Here, God?, which is a search for God’s will in one’s life.

A. A. Hoekema’s Holy Spirit Baptism is a scriptural study of the role of the Spirit in the Christian’s life, and it provides a balanced view over against some extravagant claims that are made. He concludes that there is little value to tongue speaking. 1.95.

Saints and Snobs is a study of all this talk about love, sweet love, and an effort to make important distinctions and identify the love that is real. Authoress Jacobsen’s chapter on “Give Yourself A way” is especially good. 1.95.

If you want to read about the crisis of the clergy today, then read A New Breed of Clergy. 1.95. The Problem with Prayer Is . . . deals with questions about prayer and gets at the answers, such as what to do when you don’t feel like praying. 1.00.

We have five bound volumes of Restoration Review, 1966 through 1970, at 3.00 each. And you should reserve your copy of the 1971-72 double volume, still unpriced.

A Commentary on the Revelation of John by George Eldon Ladd is a solid and useful piece of work. It is scholarly without being technical, making it ideal for the average reader. While the position taken is premillennial, it is fair to all reasonable positions. It avoids dogmatism, and does well in showing the relevance of this difficult and neglected book to our own time. It is to be commended for its readability. In hardback at 6.95.

For only 2.95 we will send you Theological Crossings, which is a collection of some of the recent thinking of a broad section of living theologians. Harvey Cox, for example, has an interview with himself; William Stringfellow talks about rebellion and resurrection in Harlem; John A. T. Robinson discusses whether his book on Honest to God was radical enough. These are not boring essays, but lively confrontations with relevant issues.

For 1.95 we can send you a book that deals with a lot of questions folk are asking about Holy Spirit Baptism, written by a professor at Calvin Seminary. He describes how tongue speaking has spilled over into non-pentecostal churches, but most of the book is a treatment of biblical teaching. He recognizes a value in tongue-speaking, as well as its scriptural base, but believes that both Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostals have blown up the value of the gift out of all proportion to scriptural teaching.

The Jesus People is probably the best treatment of “old-time religion in the age of Aquarius.” Written by two sociologists and an English professor, it seeks the whys and wherefores of the Jesus movement. It has scores of pictures, including even a Jesus watch, illustrating the variegated movement. In paperback, it is a 250-page study of the origins and beliefs of the Jesus kids, all within the backdrop of the social milieu. 2.95.