OFFICE NOTES

 

We can still supply Louis Cochran’s The Fool of God, a historical novel on the life of Alexander Campbell, a good place to begin for deeper understanding of our history. 3.80 includes postage.

Hermeneutics is the thing these days, the issue in Biblical studies around the world. New Testament Interpretation: Essays on Principles and Methods, edited by Howard Marshall of Aberdeen in Scotland, is for the more serious student, though it is not highly technical. It deals with the use of critical methods in interpretation and defines the task of exegesis, as well as a survey of the background of NT interpretation. The studies are mostly by British scholars, but one by Ralph Martin of Fuller Seminary on different ways to interpret the NT is especially helpful. The price is a hefty 12.95, but this is a substantial piece of work.

How would you advise a man whose wife has become sexually incapable because of a malfunction in her body? The problem was put to Martin Luther, who could not agree that divorce would be justifiable in such a case. If the man cannot live as a celibate, he might take a second wife, said Luther, for it is better to have two wives than to forsake one. That is only one little point in a very resourceful and timely volume on Biblical Christian Marriage by Cliff Edwards. You’ll find the chapter on “When Christians Divorce” most helpful and the one on ‘The Greatest of These is Love” is informative and encouraging. It deals also with the problems of marriage in the middle years, often neglected by such books. We highly recommend this one at $6.95, postpaid.

If you appreciate what appears in this issue from Isaac Errett, you will certainly appreciate his Evenings With the Bible in three volumes. The price has gone up to 15.00 for the set, but it is still worth it and then some. We are pleased that many of our readers have purchased this set. We’re probably selling more of them than the publisher himself. I am fearful it may go out of print.

A.M. Hunter is an especially fine writer. His Gleanings from the New Testament at 5.25 and Interpreting the Parables at 3.75 make for exciting reading. In Gleanings there are chapters on the eleventh commandment, the egoism of Christ, and the unfamiliar sayings of Jesus that you will find most informative, William Neil’s The Difficult Sayings of Jesus is a similar kind of book, and you’ll especially appreciate his treatment of the unforgivable sin. $1.80 postpaid.

William Barclay’s A Spiritual Autobiography at 1.80 is not just about him and his experiences, but about many things, including what went on in a synagogue service in the time of Jesus.

Our bound volume for 1977, entitled Principles of Unity and Fellowship, should be ready by early summer. If you have placed your order, you need do no more. The book will be sent to you with invoice enclosed.