The
Hope of the Believer . . . Restoration Review, Vol. 31, No. 5, May 1989
Due
to the extended illness of our bookbinder, along with the death of his wife who
helped him, we have had to search out some-one else to bind our 1985-86
volumes, which will be issued under the title Adventures
of the Early Church, which was the theme for those two years. After a long
delay we are pleased to announce that this hound volume will be ready to mail
out within a few weeks. The price will be $12.50, which is not much higher
than the subscription rate. It will be beautifully bound in hard cover and with
dust jacket. If you send us a check with your order, we will pay the postage.
Those who have already ordered this book will be sent a copy with invoice
enclosed. We
continue to mention Edward Fudge's The
Fire That Consumes because it has proved to be such a challenging book,
one that questions traditional views about hell and endless punishment. The
price is It
is rare for a book to have as a subtitle, "A Study for Churches of
Christ," for we have not been all that open to self-examination. But this
book, Deacons: Male and Female, challenges the all-male ministry position
usually taken by Churches of Christ. The author makes a persuasive and yet
cautious case for female deacons, drawing upon a wide variety of sources,
including our own history. He concludes that a change can come without
disrupting unity, with some churches having no deacons, some only male
deacons, and some both male and female deacons. $12.50 postpaid. Since
there is so much daring thinking going on in reference to woman's role in the
church we do well to try to keep up. One very Another
tide that we must keep mentioning since it so effectively challenges our
traditional thinking about divorce and remarriage is Olan Hicks' What
the Bible Says About Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage. He insists that
there is no such thing as "living in adultery" and he argues
convincingly that all divorced people have the right to marry. $13.95
postpaid. I
am presently reading with great profit Marvin R. Wilson's Our
Father Abraham, which is a study of the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. It is high time that we do something
about our ignorance of our roots in Hebrew soil, and here is a good place to
start. $15.95 postpaid. Because
of a special purchase we can offer William Barclay's Jesus
As They Saw Him for only $8.95 postpaid (usually$12.95). This is a
remarkable study of Jesus, based on 42 names and titles attributed to him,
such as Son of David, Son of Man, the Door, the Vine, the Good Shepherd. It is
Barclay at his scholarly best, highly resourceful and yet very readable and
entertaining. There
are two ways you can obtain The Stone-Campbell
Movement by Leroy Garrett. You can get a free copy by sending us eight
subs to this journal at $3.00 each (total $24.00), including your own, new or
renewals, but you must request the free book when you write. Or you may
purchase it outright for $21.95. We pay the postage when you pay in advance.
In any event we are convinced that you will be pleased with the book. All
books mentioned in this column may be purchased from us at address below. RESTORATION REVIEW, 1201 Windsor Dr., Denton, Texas 76201
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