BOOK NOTES

 

So long as the Mormon elders are out doing their thing, Harry L. Ropp’s The Mormon Papers will continue to be an important resource in responding to them. The evidence- he presents is persuasive to the open mind. We have a new supply at 4.10 postpaid.

Howard Snyder’s The Community of the King, published in 1977, is back on our shelves and available at 4.85 postpaid. A study of the nature of the church, it deals with the problem of forms and structures. It is especially appropriate for people concerned with the nature of the primitive church.

William Barclay’s Daily Celebration was in two volumes, but only vol. 2 is available, and you may not be able to get it much longer. It consists of down-to-earth comments on how to live in our kind of world. 6.50 postpaid.

Do you find life persistently perplexing?, to use Paul Yonggie Cho’s term in Solving Life’s Problems. He also tells you how to deal with deception and how to live with God each day. It has a lot to offer at only 4.95 pp.

A very perceptive Presbyterian minister (I went to Princeton with him!) says a lot of challenging things for folk like us in his Locked in a Room with Open Doors, which we can send you for only 4.50 pp. Ernie Campbell is one of the great preachers of our time, much of it being at the Riverside Church in New York. Rich in illustrations, his lessons are both simple and profound, and this is a book that could excite you.

Commitment is a watchword in these days of broken marriages and broken homes. We commend Elizabeth Achtemeier’s The Committed Marriage as part of the answer to conflicts in marriage. She is a homiletics professor at Union Seminary (New York) and deals with the larger issue of the role of women from the Biblical perspective. 5.50 pp.

As long as it is in print we will continue to tell our readers of John R. W. Stott’s Christ the Controversialist, which remains after a decade one of the most informative books I’ve read. It deals with Jesus’ confrontation with the religionists of his day and puts a finger on what is really basic to the Christian faith. It is still only 4.50 pp.

The College Press series on What the Bible Says is very well done, being both resourceful and responsible. Julia Staton’s What the Bible Says About Women leaves no stone unturned, even dealing with the woman’s inner self. Other volumes in the series are Robert Palmer’s What the Bible Says About Faith and Opinion; Russell Boatman’s What the Bible Says About the End Time; James Van Buren and Don DeWelt on What the Bible Says About Praise and Promise. 13.50 each pp.

Since we are a people born of freedom, we should be aware of any serious effort to set Christian freedom in perspective. We should be able to identify with this Seventh Day Adventist pastor who became addicted with legalism and a works gospel, “self-effort” he calls it. He tells you what the Sabbath finally came to mean to him and how he found the Cross, after being sidetracked now and again. We recommend Sam Pestes’ Christian, Be Free!, which we can supply at 4.50 pp.