BOOK NOTES

 

Those who would like attractive booklets to slip into your letters or to hand to friends might try these, most of them by John R. W. Stott: Culture and the Bible; Evangelism: Why and How; Personal Evangelism; Becoming a Christian; Being a Christian; The Authority of the Bible; Hope for a Troubled World; Practical Criticism (Giving it and Taking it); Who is my Neighbor?; Mormonism; What is Christianity?; Interpreting the Bible; Spiritual Dryness; Jesus, Zoroaster, Buddha, Socrates, Muhammad. These are substantial booklets of about 40 pages each, colorful, well-written, and small envelope size. They are 60 cents each when you order five or more, including postage.

We have a new supply of what may be the best study on the subject, Interpreting Revelation by Merrill Tenney, at 8.50 postpaid. He presents difficult and complicated issues in a simple and intelligent manner.

Memoirs of Alexander Campbell is still in print but may not be for long. It is the most resourceful book on our history. 19.95 pp.

For only 2.25 we will send you The Fat Is In Your Head, written by one who knows how to take it off. You might want to send one to a friend, anonymously.

William Neil has a second book on More Difficult Sayings of Jesus, 31 in all, including Casting Pearls Before Swine, Cursing a Fig Tree, and The Salt of the Earth. 6.50 postpaid. The first volume is still available at 1.95 pp., entitled Difficult Sayings of Jesus. We highly recommend them both.

If the article in this issue on “Madelyn’s Wayward Son” leads you to purchase My Life Without God by William J. Murray, the price is 12.95, postpaid.

If you are interested in history, you will want A Documentary History of Religion in America, by one of our leading historians, Edwin S. Gaustad. This is the first of two volumes, up to the Civil War. By a study of 200 documents produced by American churches the author takes one through the back roads of religion in America, two of which are from the Stone-Campbell Movement. 532 pages, 16.95 pp.

The Meaning of the Millennium by R. G. Clouse, which clearly sets forth four views of the millennium, continues to be popular reading. The price is now 6.50 postpaid.

In Solving Life’s Problems the pastor of the world’s largest church (in Seoul, Korea) tells you how to overcome difficulty and how to experience God daily. Much of the book deals with building right relationships. It is a bargain at 4.95 pp.

Hardly anyone in our time has been read more seriously than C. S. Lewis. One of his longtime friends and students, Kathryn Lindskoog, has written C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian, which explains Lewis’ views on God, nature, reality, death, heaven, hell, prayer, pain, miracles, etc., etc. You will find this a provocative book. 6.95 pp.

Two books by Howard A. Snyder would be especially appreciated by our readers, for they read like a modern Alexander Campbell. The Problem of Wine Skins and The Community of the King, at 5.50 each pp. deal with nature of the church in a technological age, always in reference to the Scriptures.

More than 2,000 copies of The Stone-Campbell Movement, by the editor of this journal, have already sold, and the reactions from those who have read it are enthusiastic. Our history is at last readable and interesting, they are saying. If you have not yet ordered a copy for your family, we urge you to do so at once. 21.95 postpaid.