BOOK NOTES

 

Coping With Difficult People by Paul Schmidt tells you how to understand and deal with personality problems. The author has names for folk you have to deal with, such as emotional cripples, the doormat, Narcissus, the arrogant accuser, the relentless detective, the worrywart, the loner, the pseudo-intellectual, poor me, etc. You may be reading about yourself before you are through, for all of us are sometimes difficult. 5.50 postpaid.

Dr. James C. Dobson’s films and books are becoming so popular that he has become a celebrity. His latest book, Straight Talk to Men and Their Wives, shoots from the hip, and yet it is sensitive and humorous. He tells a man how to relate to his wife, what it really means to be a man. The chapters on a man and his wife and a man and his God are especially relevant. He even deals with a man and his death. 8.95 postpaid.

W. Robert Palmer, a scholar in the Christian Church, has produced a very resourceful, scriptural work on What the Bible Says About Faith and Opinion. Drawing helpfully from our pioneers as well as the Bible,. he provides principles for unity and fellowship. Part of the book deals with a most neglected area, precedent, in which he shows the place of examples in scripture. 13.50 postpaid.

Ernst Kasemann, now retired from University of Tuebingen in Germany, is one of the foremost New Testatment scholars, and if you want to study (not just read) a weighty treatment and yet understandable of Romans, this is it. Overall it deals not only with Romans but with Paul’s entire thought. It is entirely too high at 22.50, but then again this is a Kasemann and 428 pages.

A much humbler treatment of Romans, and a most significant one for Church of Christ people, is K. C. Moser’s The Gist of Romans, which has lately been under considerable fire since it is being studied by our folk who are recovering the doctrine of grace. Written back in 1957, it is probably now having its greatest impact, attacking as it does our “law-gospel” preaching. The Way of Salvation by the same author is a companion volume. They are 4.95 each postpaid.

We have a one-volume edition of Johnson’s Notes for only 10.00 pp., which is probably the most popular commentary on the NT ever studied by our people, the old reliable.

The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim (2 vols. in I, 1500 pages) is described as the most important general work on the life of Christ in our language, and it is a library within itself. We advertised this fine volume in our January number at 14.95. It has since gone out of print and back in print again, the new price being 18.95 postpaid. But since this book is several books in one, it is still a bargain.

The Scott-Walters Exchange on the Authenticity of the Church of Christ is a discussion between two preachers on whether the “Church of Christ” is what it claims to be. If you wish a copy, send a dollar to Buff Scott, 1003 Pilot Ave., Cherokee, 10. 51012.

The TV movie about Joni lends importance to the book by that name. It is the unforgettable story of a young woman’s struggle against quadriplegia and depression. The readership is now well into the second million. 3.95 postpaid.

Ann Kiemel teaches her readers how to love. And you will love her when you read I Love The Word Impossible at 3.45 postpaid.

David Hubbard, Old Testament scholar and president of Fuller Seminary, has written an insightful little volume on More Psalms for all Seasons, which he subtitles “Expressions of the believing heart.” 1.95 postpaid.

If pounds are interfering with the good life for you or someone you love, The Fat Is In Your Head, could change things for you. 2.75 postpaid.

We owe it to ourselves to be posted on the plight of the boat people Stan Mooneyham’s Sea of Heartbreak may wrench your heart, but it will inform you on what every intelligent Christian should know about the world Christ died to make whole. 3.45 postpaid.

Christians Only by James DeForest Murch is a history of the Restoration Movement. It recounts the more recent divisions that have left the Movement with three major churches. 6.50 postpaid.

John Willis of Abilene Christian University has prepared a readable and informative Introduction (it might be called) to the Old Testament, entitled The World and Literature of the Old Testament. You will especially appreciate the chapter on the Christian use of the OT. 9.95 postpaid.

Anything George Eldon Ladd writes is worth reading, and this includes his study on Jesus’ second coming, The Blessed Hope. His chapter on “Watch” will interest you. 3.45 postpaid. Along with this you might study The Meaning of the Millennium, which sets forth four views, Ladd’s premillennial view being one of them. 4.75 postpaid.

For 1.95 we will send you a tender little volume on William Barclay’s A Spiritual Autobiography, which you may want to read twice like I did. You will laugh and weep, especially when he tells how he handled the tragic death of his daughter and her betrothed, who died in a boating accident. We also have his larger, 2-volume set Daily Celebration, 6.95 and 5.95 respectively, and you can buy them a volume at a time if you wish. They are wisdom-packed volumes from long years of study.

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