BOOK NOTES

 

We are no longer going to be able to allow you to charge your order of books. We simply do not have the time that is now required to send out statements and do the necessary bookkeeping. We will have to ask you to send money with your order. If you cannot do this, we will send you an invoice on what you have requested, with the exact amount stated, and when you return this to us, with check enclosed, we will fill the order. This applies to all books except the bound volumes of this journal, which we will continue to mail out from year to year or every two years, as they are bound, to those who have made advance orders, with invoice enclosed. We hope you will understand our doing this and that it will not be too inconvenient for you.

We can be grateful that some of the great works on our history are being kept in print, for now at least. For decades unavailable at any price, you can now have Robert Richardson’s Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, two volumes in one, handsomely bound, for 19.95 postpaid. Along with it you would do well to have the historical novel on Campbell’s life, called The Fool of God, in paperback at 5.50 postpaid.

John T. Willis of Abilene has done a most resourceful volume on The World and Literature of the Old Testament, which deals with geography, archaeology, and history of OT times, as well as an account of the making of the books. 9.95 pp.

For 2.25 we will send you a copy of Thomas Campbell’s Declaration and Address, which includes the Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery, two famous documents in Restoration history.

For 3.50 we will send you the new soft-cover edition of Barclay’s New Testament: A New Translation, which has a introduction to each of the books.

The unabridged Edersheim on The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah is presently out of print, but the one-volume abridged edition, which is adequate for most readers, is available at 7.95 pp.

We can supply what we consider to be the best dictionary of the Bible for 16.95, Westminster Dictionary of the Bible, a handsome piece of work.

The Westminster Press features a series of helpful Christian Care Books that deal with pressing problems, such as After Suicide, Coping with Abuse, Coping with Difficult People, Coping with Physical Disability, For Grandparents, Mid-Life Crises, Parents and Discipline, Parents of the Homosexual, When Your Parents Divorce, Two-Career Marriage. These are ideal for church libraries. 5.95 each pp.

Still available and always a favorite is William Barclay’s Daily Bible Study, revised edition, all 18 vols. only 84.00 pp.

A book I am presently reading with great profit is F. F. Bruce, Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free, back in print at 15.95 pp.

We are pleased that our readers love church history, and we recommend a book that still bears an old price tag of only 4.50 pp., Harry Boer’s A Short History of the Early Church.

Our bound volume for 1979-80 is now available at 8.50 (9.75 postpaid) which is only the cost of a two-year subscription, which makes the handsome binding free. With its appropriate dust jacket, we think you will like it. All three of our previous double volumes are out of print, but you can still order the single volumes for 1977 and 1978 at 5.50 each.

 

HISTORY BOOK SOON READY We are pleased to announce the tentative date of Oct. 1 for the publication of The Stone-Campbell Movement: An Anecdotal History of Three Churches by Leroy Garrett. The pre-publication price of the 850-page book is 17.95, the regular price 19.95. We encourage you to place your order with us at once. For this book you need send no money in advance. You will be billed when the book is shipped. This book is the study of a movement, with each chapter having that word in its title, and since we tell many stories within the big Story, we call it an anecdotal history. Some of the chapter titles are: From Philosophers to Theologians: European Influences on the Movement; James O’Kelly and Rice Haggard: The American Prelude to the Movement; Barton W. Stone: The Movement In Its Inception in Kentucky; Thomas Campbell: The Movement In Its Inception in Pennsylvania and Virginia; Alexander Campbell: The Movement in Design. Later chapters include: Heretics and Defectors: The Movement Seeks A Norm; Pioneers on the Frontier: The Movement Moves West and South; Editor Bishops: The Movement in Controversy; More Editor Bishops: The Movement Divides. Eighteen chapters in all lay bare the real story of how a unity movement with a glorious “Plea” became one of the most divisive episodes in modern church history, and the real reasons for this. Those who have read sample chapters in advance report that it is interesting, informative, and easy-to-read, with one adding that some of it is “painful. “ If you order now you get the book for 17.95, and you can order as many as you like. But send no money until you receive the book in the fall.

Some of you may be interested in the immediate speaking engagements of the editor, which have been curtailed this summer because of the need to work on the history book. July 18-19, Marietta, Ga. (Contact Bob Chafin, Marietta Christian Church, 971-0391); Aug. 16-21, Salem, In. (Contact Robert W. Campbell, Rt. 3, Salem, In. 47167); Sept. 24-27, Flint, Mi. (Contact Amos Ponder, 1269 Pickwick P., Flint, Mi. 48507).