BOOK NOTES

 

Jack Cottrell, a professor of theology at Cincinnati Christian Seminary, is the author of a new book entitled What The Bible Says About God The Redeemer, a 598-page study that is a theological education within itself. Beginning with the premise that the gravest question before the church is God Himself, he goes on to deal with the Righteousness of God, the holiness of God, the love of God, and God as redeemer. That he would write 68 pages on the immutability of God gives you some idea of the immensity of this study. It serves up lots of information for only $14.50 postpaid.

Ouida and I recently watched The Restoration Pageant on our VCR, which is the creation of Mary Harding, Box 58, Turner, OR 97392. We watched the whole sweep of the history of the church from Daniel's dream to the labors of Barton Stone and Alexander Campbell, with due attention given to Martin Luther. Lots of vital information is packed into a single cassette. You can purchase it for $30.00 plus postage or rent it for a week for $18.00 plus postage by writing directly to the Oregon address.

Michael Hall, a psychologist-minister with a Church of Christ in Colorado, has written some exciting and useful material on self-understanding, which we recommend. One book is on Emotions: Sometimes I Have Them/Sometimes They Have Me, which tells us a lot about ourselves, some things we'd just as soon not know but need to know. The other is Motivation: How To Be A Positive Force In A Negative World, which if heeded could change our lives.  They are $7.50 each, postpaid.

The entire set of Alexander Campbell's Millennial Harbinger, all 41 volumes, have been reprinted in a beautiful hardcover edition by College Press, which we can supply at $495.00, postpaid. We might be able to allow you to pay this out in monthly installments.

The Foolishness of God, by that forceful ecumenical thinker, Leslie Newbigin, is the kind of book our folk in Churches of Christ/Christian Churches need to read, for we have not yet come to grips with the tough issues relating to the gospel and culture as Newbigin does. His chapter of what the church must do in our modern culture, in which he daringly states seven imperatives, is enormously significant. I was surprised that the first on his list was that the church must recover a true doctrine of last things or eschatology. This book is really on target! $8.50 postpaid.

If you want a readable book on what the New Testament is all about, how it was formed, and how it should be interpreted, I suggest a new one by Bruce Chilton (Yale) entitled Beginning New Testament Study. He has a chapter on what translation to use and how to use it. $10.50 postpaid.