BOOK NOTES

 

If you love the beauty of the King James Bible and yet dislike its antiquated style, then you should have the very impressive The New King James Version, which preserves the elegance of the old but eliminates the thee’s and thou’s. Rather than Paul saying, “I am verily a man which am a Jew” the new KJV reads, “I am a Jew,” and words that have changed their meaning have been corrected such as precede for prevent in I Thess. 4:15 and conduct for conversation such as in Gal. 1:13. It may go too far when it has “Your kingdom come. Your will be done,” and even the Psalms have no thee’s and thou’s, but still it is the King James, somewhat dressed up in modernity, even if it does have the words of Jesus in red. It is a handsome, buckram, durable edition, and we can send you one for only 12.95 postpaid, and this is the entire Bible.

William Barclay readers will be glad to have his translation of the New Testament, along with a short introduction to each book. He is good at such things as the use of the Greek tenses in such places as: “Keep on asking, and you will get; keep on seeking, and you will find.” For “Seek first the kingdom of God, etc.” he has “Make the Kingdom of God, and life in loyalty to him, the object of all your endeavour, and you will get all these other things as well.” 3 .50 postpaid.

We have a few copies of Walter Kaufmann’s Critique of Religion and Philosophy, now in soft cover, at 5.95. Theology Today said that a Christian should take this book to a quiet place and have dialogue with it, and it will surely make him a better Christian. It is especially for those who would dip somewhat into philosophy.

A concordance is a must for serious Bible study. We can make you a good deal on the handy edition of Cruden’s Concordance, which is an excellent listing of all the significant words of the entire Bible. 7.50 postpaid.

We can still supply several books that have been popular with our readers: Interpreting Revelation by Merrill Tenney, a highly readable treatment of the last book of the Bible, 8.95; The Mormon Papers by Harry L. Ropp, which gets to the taproot of the Mormon illusion, its “Bibles,” 4.50; Harry R. Boer’s A Short History of the Early Church, an excellent brief survey, 5.50.

Among the new books is Liberating the Church by Howard Snyder, who has in several books brought the modern church to judgment in terms of its mission in this world. The book calls the church to be in Kingdom business more than in church business. 6.95 postpaid. Another new book is Nuclear Holocaust and Christian Hope by Ronald Sider and Richard Taylor gives the reader the facts of an imaginary nuclear attack on Moscow, and goes on to challenge the believer the terrifying consequences of a nuclear war for all, along with a look at deterrence and the realistic possibility of its failure. 6.95 postpaid.

And all who love to read John R. W. Stott will welcome God’s Book For God’s People, which shows one how to glorify God through a proper use of the Bible, all in just 96 pages. 3.50 postpaid.

We have three bound volumes of this journal yet available, covering four years of publication, each featuring a special theme. Principles of Unity and Fellowship (1977) and The Ancient Order (1978) are 5.50 each, while Blessed Are the Peacemakers and With All the Mind, a double volume for 1979-80, is 8.50. These are indexed, beautifully hand bound, gold stamped, with dust cover, and the price is barely more than the usual sub rate.

We have a thick folder full of reactions from the rank and file to The Stone-Campbell Movement: An Anecdotal History of Three Churches and we may share some of these with you. A reader in Nashville, to select one at random, wrote after reading the book: “I appreciate your treatment of the leaders of the movement with respect and dignity, acknowledging their dedication to God and his word, yet without apology showing how they, as we all, come short of living out the greatest commandment of loving God and our neighbor.” If you do not have your copy, we will put one in the mail to you the same day your check for 21.95 arrives, postpaid. While 21.95 is a modest price for a hardbound book of over 700 pages, we realize that is still a lot of money to some of our readers who might want a copy of The Stone-Campbell Movement. For the benefit of such ones we will send each one a free copy of the book if he or she will go to the trouble of rounding up just 8 subs to this journal at 3.00 each. Send us the 8 names and 24.00 and tell us that you want the book and it will be yours.