BOOK NOTES

 

Walter Wilson of Des Moines ordered 25 copies of The Fool of God, a historical novel on Alexander Campbell, last year and again this year. Curious as to why he would buy so many, I inquired and learned that he gives them away. That impresses me as a sensible way to show liberality. If you don’t give any copies of this fascinating book away, you will at least want one for yourself, which we can supply at 5.50 postpaid.

Memoirs of Alexander Campbell was out-of-print almost as long as it was in print, and it will likely be out-of-print again before long. It is 19.95, postpaid. If that seems high, remember it is two volumes in one, and it is the most important work ever published on our history.

More good stuff on our heritage is Crying in the Wilderness by a professor at Lipscomb College on the life of David Lipscomb. 12.95 pp.

A subscriber asked me to name the best one-volume commentary in print, and I named Peake’s Commentary on the Bible, even though I did not stock it. It is acclaimed at home and abroad as the best. Now completely revised and updated, it is available at 34.95 pp. We now have it as part of our offerings to our readers. It is a library of several volumes combined into one. It is phenomenal how much they put between two covers, all A-1 stuff.

The Lord Is My Shepherd is an exposition on selected psalms by the late William Barclay. It was his intention to do this on much of the OT, but this is as far as he got. 5.50 postpaid.

Both volumes of Johnson’s Notes are now in one volume. Long a favorite among our people and highly reliable, the price is 11.50 pp.

Life and times of Jesus the Messiah by Edersheim is another of the books that are libraries within themselves, this one being 858 pages. It is such a classic that you can study it for a lifetime and then pass it on. 18.95 pp.

Everybody is reading and watching James C. Dobson these days, a psychiatrist with Christian commitment who is saying important things about the home. For 8.95 we will send you his latest, Straight Talk to Men and Their Wives.

Bound volumes of this journal are available, even though our last, the 1979 edition, is still not ready. We have but a few copies left of The Restoration Mind, 1971-72, at 4.95. In short supply also is The Word Abused, 1975-76, at 5.95. If you want either of these, you should order at once. Also available are more recent titles: The Principles of Unity and Fellowship, 1977, and The Ancient Order, 1978, both at 5.50.

If you would like to see what we’ve been saying over the past two decades or so, we will send you a random selection of 18 back issues of this paper for only 3.00.

For 5.50 we will send you D. K. Swearer’s Dialogue: the Key to Understanding Other Religions. If you are interested in how a Christian should relate to the world’s great religions, this is a good place to start. He has a chapter on how the Buddhists view Christianity.