BOOK NOTES

 

Now that we have entered our last year of publication there will be an increased interest in our back issues, both bound volumes and loose copies. If you are interested in bound volumes, you might start with our most recent, The Hope of the Believer, which contains all issues of the paper for 1990-91, which is $15.00 postpaid. We have seven bound volumes in all, dating back to 1977, except 1979-80, and are available at $70.00 postpaid. These are handsome, matching volumes with dust jackets, introductions, and table of contents. Loose copies are 50 cents each, postpaid, while they last, and we have about 70 issues, some as old as the 1960’s. Or we’ll send you a random selection (by us) of 14 back issues for $5.00 postpaid.

Since our final issue will be in December of this year, all renewals from this point on will be for less than a year. Figure your renewal on the basis of 60 cents per issue. All new readers may subscribe for all of 1992 anytime during the year, and we will send the back issues they have missed at the time they subscribe.

There are two books just off the press that are critical (in a positive way) of the Church of Christ, the kind of self-criticism we need, coming as they do from within the church itself. One is Endangered Heritage: An Examination of Church of Christ Doctrine by Walt Yancey, an engineer who is a third-generation member of the Church of Christ. This is a revised edition of a hard-hitting book that challenges the church on its unique doctrines, especially our exclusivism and anti-instrumental music position. It quotes extensively from our pioneers, showing that we have been less than faithful to our heritage, thus the title. Now in soft edition and only $9.95 postpaid.

The other recently published book that calls the Church of Christ to account is The Church In Transition by James S. Woodroof, which says that we as a people have been unwilling to be a changing church in a changing world. It also says that it is imperative that we take our heritage as a unity people more seriously. It makes a strong appeal for unity in diversity and gives a helpful analysis of the Boston movement with which the author has had personal experience. It is encouraging that 700 of these books sold at the last ACU Lectureship. $7.95 postpaid.