BOOK NOTES

 

Those who may be neglecting the Old Testament in their personal study would do well to read Bruce C. Birch’s What Does the Lord Require?, an easy-to-read study of the great events in Israel’s history, especially the exodus, the exile, and the restoration. These great events, along with Israel as a covenant people, serve to show how God’s people are called to social witness. From a Christian perspective, the author asks not only what we are to do in a broken world but what we are to be. 8.95 postpaid.

Limping Along by Bela Vassady is a confessional autobiography of a pilgrim theologian, one that has long been involved in the ecumenical movement. The title is borrowed from Calvin, who said it is better to limp along in God’s will than to move full speed ahead outside his will. Vassady found himself writing a confessional of his own struggles as he told his story of a pioneer theologian-ecumenist. If you are interested in the struggle for a united church, this story will interest you. But it is also a love story of a man and his wife who labored and hoped together and who, in their admittedly childish dream, would like to die together. Since this story begins in Vassady’s native Hungary, the reader is also exposed to the larger East-West world and its trauma. 13.95 postpaid.

Smoke on the Mountain is as imaginative a title as the book is creative, which is a study of the Ten Commandments. When C.S. Lewis, who wrote the preface, refers to this book as a union of passion and intelligence he might be referring to the author treating “Remember the sabbath day” as “A Day of Rejoicing” or “Thou shalt not steal” as “You Can’t Cheat An Honest Man.” The author, Joy Davidson, writes with a woman’s heart to men and women alike. 7.95 postpaid.

You can have all the issues of this journal for both 1983 and 1984 bound in a handsome 400-page volume, entitled The Doe of the Dawn, which was our theme for those years, for only 10.50 postpaid, which is hardly more than the subscription rate. It has its own preface and table of contents.

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