BOOK NOTES

 

We are pleased that there is a greater demand for our back issues. Perhaps that is because we cease publication with our December 1992 issue. We have well over 100 back issues available, dating back almost 30 years. As long as they are available we are letting these go at 40 cents each plus postage. Or you can order 15 back issues for $4.00 or 25 back issues for $6.00, postpaid, when selected at random by us.

Along with our latest bound volume, The Hope of the Believer, which is all the issues for 1989-90 ($15.00), we have six other bound volumes, going back to 1977, except for 1979-80. You can get all seven volumes at a discount rate of $70.00 postpaid.

Biography is an excellent way to study history, including Restoration history. We recommend two historical novels that will give you the spirit of our Movement as well as the facts. Raccoon John Smith and The Fool of God are both by Louis Cochran, and they make for exciting reading. The first is $11.75, postpaid, and the second, which is on the life of Alexander Campbell, is $12.75, postpaid.

A veritable goldmine of information is F. F. Bruce’s Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free. It is a kind of library on Paul in one volume. His chapter on “Man of Vision and Man of Action” will impress you, as will the entire book of over 500 pages. $22.95 postpaid.

A short history of Disciples of Christ! Christian Churches/Churches of Christ (only 263 pages) by Louis Cochran is not as widely known as it should be. It is appropriately titled Captives of the Word and sells for $13.50 postpaid.

In our last number we had an article on the way Homer Hailey, now 86, has been treated because of positions taken in his The Divorced and Remarried Who Would Come to God. Since it is a more open view than that taken by most of the leaders of the conservative Churches of Christ, they have been giving him a hard time, which he takes without bitterness. We believe he has the right to be heard, and we will send you a copy for $5 .50 postpaid.

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The editor will give the Dean Walker Lecture for the European Evangelistic Society breakfast meeting on July 11 at the North American Christian Convention in Denver. The subject is “A Preface to Alexander Campbell.”

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This journal is not published in July and August. The next issue will be September.