BOOK NOTES

 

One of the most gifted writers within our Movement is Robert Shank, who is now giving most of his time to writing. Until: The Coming of Messiah and His Kingdom is a comprehensive survey of the prophetic Scriptures. He writes of the coming world kingdom, soon to appear on earth as the consummation of all history and as the prelude to the ultimate realization of the kingdom in its eternal dimension in the new heaven and new earth. It is reported that Shank’s premillennial position in this book has affected his standing among Churches of Christ, among which he has been ministering for some years. Until is a big bargain at 11.95 postpaid. He has also recently published Sources of Power of the Apostolic Witness, which points to sources of power that the church today has tragically neglected. 4.50 postpaid.

If you are interested in an in-depth, easy-to-read, study of Biblical theology, or as its sub-title reads, “A summary of Christian doctrine based on Biblical revelation,” we recommend The Word of Truth, a 628-page book by Dale Moody, a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. It is actually a systematic theology with every major subject studied, whether revelation, God, Christ, the Spirit, the church, man, sin, the consummation, etc. Since he is a Baptist theologian, you will be surprised at his treatment of salvation and apostasy. He refers to Robert Shank’s Life in the Son and calls on his readers to answer him with Scripture and not with emotion! The price is 24.95 postpaid.

For 4.50 postpaid we will send you Science and the Quest for Meaning, which explores the compatibility of science and faith. He sees no need for the two to square off, for while science cannot answer ultimate questions, it is vitally important, giving us fresh material for our wonder and worship. Christian faith on the other hand provides the most rational basis for the practice of science.

For 18.95 postpaid we will send you what we believe to be the best of Bible dictionaries, The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible, which the Christian Herald describes as “a goldmine of information about every major topic in the Bible.”

While it is yet in print we can send you Memoirs of Alexander Campbell by Robert Richardson, which for over a century has been the most important account of the Stone-Campbell Movement, being sub-titled “A View of the Origin, Progress and Principles of the Religious Reformation which He Advocated.” 19.95 postpaid.

We have a new supply of Interpreting Revelation by Merrill C. Tenney, which is one of the best books ever on the last book of the Bible. 8.95 postpaid.

Edwin S. Gaustad, professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, has now given us A Documentary History of Religion in America, Vol. I, which goes to the Civil War. It is all there, a study of history through the important documents that emerged, whether the ceremony of Hopi Indians, the trial of Anne Hutchinson, the oratory of Jonathan Edwards, the last will and testament of Barton W. Stone, selections from Alexander Campbell, or the martyrdom of Joseph Smith. Since the author included a picture of Alexander Campbell and his wife, he can be forgiven for giving the second wife the name of the first one in the caption under the picture. If you want to learn something of American religion in terms of the writings it has created, this book is a must. 535 pages; 15.95 postpaid, soft cover.

Faith and opinion are at the root of our difficulties in reference to fellowship, and W. Robert Palmer has done us all a service with his What the Bible Says About Faith and Opinion. The quotations from the pioneers on this subject are worth the 11.95 pp. that it will cost you.

We offer special prices on concordances. Cruden’s, the handy reference edition is only 5.95 postpaid, while the large Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, which doubles as a Hebrew and Greek dictionary, is just 16.95 pp.