Utterances of Jesus, by William Dau. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $1.00. This book of one hundred sixty pages contains a series of addresses or brief sermons on various sayings of Jesus found in the New Testament. Many of them are quite sound, based on exegesis of the…
A Commentary on Galatians by Martin Luther. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $1.95. This is a new and very much abridged translation of the well-known commentary of Martin Luther on the epistle to the Galatians, by Theodore Graebner, professor of Philosophy and New Testament Interpretation at Concordia Seminary,…
The Drama of Redemption, by Dr. Samuel Jackson Cartledge. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. (142 pages, price $1.00) This is a very readable book. The subject is the redemption from the guilt and power of sin through the work of Christ as applied by the Holy Spirit. The book…
Philosophy, Education, and Certainty, by Robert L. Cooke, Ed. D., Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. This book has already been much discussed also in Reformed circles, and has met with unstinted praise and recommendation. The reason for this is to be found in the subject, the aim the author…
Simple Talks On The Tabernacle, by D. H. Dolman, M.A., D.D. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Price $1.50. This is a very readable book for the general public on a very interesting subject, written by a devout believer of Holy Writ. The contents of the book are quite what…
The New Modernism, by Dr. C. Van Til. Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 525 Locust St., Philadelphia, Pa. March 1946. Price $3.75. This is not a book for the general reeling public. But to those that are interested in the study of the Theology of Chrisis, we recommend the reading…
Expository Thoughts On the Gospels, by bishop J. C. Ryle. Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Published as a reprint by the Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price per Volume $4.95. The Zondervan Publishing House certainly did all students of the Bible, whether ministers or laymen, a service by offering a…
LANGE’S COMMENTARY ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Joshua-Ruth and I Samuel, two volumes. Price per volume $3.95. Again we heartily recommend to ministers, teachers, and all who are interested in the study of the Holy Scriptures, this priceless set of commentaries. They do contain, of…
BODY OF DIVINITY, Dr. John Gill. Published by Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Mich. 1,023 pages. Price $10.00. Dr. John Gill was an English divine of the eighteenth century. He is known to many of us because of his pronounced views on predestination and the sovereignty of God. In his Body…
LANGE’S COMMENTARY ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, Kings-Esther, two volumes. Published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price per volume $3.95. Dr. Bahr of Carlsruhe, who prepared the commentary on Kings, substituted the title’s Heilsgeschich–liche and Ethische Grundgedanken for the usual heading of the second part of the exposition in…
ONENESS WITH CHRIST by W.R. Nicholson, D.D. Published by Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $3.00. This book is commentary on the epistle to the Colossians. As a book for the general public, it makes very good reading. It is spiritual and devotional. Moreover, the author maintains all the fundamental truths of…
THINE IS THE KINGDOM, by James H. Hunter, published by Zondervan Publishing House. Price $3.00. This novel is the first prize winner in the second International Christian Fiction Contest. With its setting in the area of three beautiful lakes in northern Canada, it tells the story of a successful attempt…
LANGE’S COMMENTARY ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES; PROVERBS-SONG OF SOLOMON. Published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $3.95. Also this volume of Lange’s Commentary I have examined, and I heartily recommend to our readers for its scholarly as well as for its conservative and spiritual approach to the Holy…
QUESTIONS CHILDREN ASK, by Dena Korfker. Published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Price $1.95. This is a book designed to be read by children or by parents to their children. In story form it treats various subjects as an answer to questions which children are supposed to ask…
FEED MY LAMBS, by Henry T. Vriesen. Reliance Publishing Co., Green Bay, Wis. Price $3.00. This book is designed to be a help to parents in the biblical instruction of their children. It consists of three hundred and sixty-six brief chapters, one for every day of the year. Narratives of…
So You Want To Speak, by Mark W. Lee. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. This book presents the basic principles of public speaking in an interesting way, and offers many helpful suggestions to anyone who wants to prepare and deliver a speech. I find especially interesting what the author has…
Calvin on Scripture and Divine Sovereignty, by John Murray. Published by Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $1.75. This is a very good book which I recommend to all our readers.
DE BIJBEL TOEGELICHT VOOR HET NEDERLANDSCHE VOLK. (The Bible explained for the Dutch people). Published by J.H. Kok, N.V., Kampen, the Netherlands. EXODUS, by Dr. P.N. Kruyswijk. In an introduction the writer points out the purpose or canonical significance of Exodus as follows: “What is the purpose of the divine…
WHYTE’S BIBLE CHARACTERS, by Alexander Whyte, 2 volumes. Reprint by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Price $12.50. We become more and more indebted to the Zondervan Publishing House for publishing worthwhile Christian literature, and especially for reprinting some works of Reformed authors of the not too distant past.
DE CIVITATE DEI I; by Dr. D.K. Wielenga. Published by J.H. Kok, N.V., Kampen the Netherlands. Price f.3.50. This book has nothing to do with the well-known work by Augustine under the same title, except that the author treats somewhat the same kind of material as Augustine in his “City…
HET ONAANTASTBARE (The Untouchable) by the Rev. J. Overduin. Published by J.H. Kok N.V., Kampen, the Netherlands. Price f. 7.25.
HOSEA (in “Commentaar op het Oude Testament”) by Dr. C. van Gelderen and Dr. W.H. Gispen. Published by J.H. Kok, N.V. Kampen, the Netherlands. Price f. 16.90. In a preface to this commentary we are informed that its original and chief author is Dr. van Gelderen, but that he could…
GESTALTEN DER LIEFDE (Manifestations of Love), by Dr. G. Brillenburg-Wurth. Published by J.H. Kok, N.V. Kampen, the Netherlands. Price f. 4.95.
HEBREWS (the epistle of warning), by Dr. John Owen. Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $8.00.
DE OUDERDOM DER AARDE. (The Age of the Earth), by Dr. G.J. Sizoo e.a. Published by J.H. Kok, N. V. Kampen, the Netherlands. Price f.2.90. One who is interested to learn on the basis of what arguments science concludes that the earth is millions and even billions of years old,…
Dogmatic Theology by William G.T. Shedd. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Three volumes. Price, for the set, $14.85; per volume, $4.95.
Het Ware Geloof (The True Faith), by the Rev. S.G. De Graaf. Published J.H. Kok, N.V., Kampen, the Netherlands. Price f 13.75.
The Psalter, by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Third printing, $2.50 (To churches $1.75). Our readers will remember that this psalter was published in a revised edition in 1947. But the supply ran out and the Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company issued a second printing at this…
Calvinism, by Ben A. Warburton. Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Price $3.00. The sub-title of this book is: “Its History, Basic Principles, Its Fruits and Its Future, and Its Practical Application and Life.” Personally, I am not acquainted with the author of this book, and…
Christenen in de Antieke Wereld (Christians in the Ancient World) by Dr. A. Sizoo. Published by J.H. Kok N.V., Kampen, the Netherlands. Price f 7.50.
De Triomf der Genade in de Theologie van Karl Barth. (De triumph of grace in the theology of Karl Barth) by Dr. G.C. Bekhouwer. Published by J.H. Kok, Kampen, Nederland, Price f 12.50.
De Levensgang van Gerben Gervaas, (The Life-Course of Gerben Gervaas) by Go Verburg. Published by J.H. Kok, N.V., Kampen, The Netherlands. Price f 5.40.
Midden in het Leven (In the Midst of Life) by Dr. W. Sikken. Published by J.H. Kok, N.V., Kampen, the Netherlands. Price f 7.95.
Lucas, vols. I, II. (Luke, two vols.) by Dr. S. Greijdanus. Published by J.H. Kok, Kampen, the Netherlands. Price vol. I f 7.95; vol. II f 7.50.
Expository Outlines on the Whole Bible, Vol. XI, Matthew, by Charles Simeon; published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $3.95.
Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah by Joseph Addison Alexander; published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Price $8.95. This is a commentary after my own heart. Zondervan is to be congratulated for reprinting and offering to the public books of this nature dating from the preceding century. They certainly…
A Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church Fathers, by Robert R. Williams. Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. Price $4.00.
The Old Testament View Of Revelation by James G.S.S. Thomson. Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Price $2.50.
Inleiding in de Zendingswetenshap (Introduction in the Science of Missions), by Dr. J.H. Bavinck. Published by J.H. Kok, Kampen, the Netherlands.
The Epistles of Paul to the Philippians and to Philemon, by Jac. J. Muller. Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $3.50.
The Heidelberg Catechism, (An Exposition) Vol. IX,Love thy Neighbor for God’s Sake, by Rev. H. Hoeksema. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. $2.50. It is with great pleasure that I announce the 9th volume of the series on the Heidelberger to you. I am also authorized to tell…
Expository Outlines on the Whole Bible, by Charles Simeon. Published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $3.95. Again I received and perused some volumes of this most excellent commentary. All that I have written about them in former issues of our Standard Bearerstill I hold to be true. It…
Expository Outlines on the Whole Bible: Revelation; by Charles Simeon. Published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $3.95.
Sterven . . . en dan? (Dying . . . and then), by Rev. B. Telder. Published by J.H. Kok, Kampen, the Netherlands. In this book the author attempts to prove that the people of God, when they die, do not immediately go to heaven but will enter into glory only…
Champion of Geneva, by Peter de Rover. Translated from the Dutch by Wm. B. Eerdmans who is also the publisher. Price thirty-five cents per copy. In larger quantities twenty-five cents per copy. This little book of only about thirty pages is, to my mind, a most excellent brief sketch of…
The Rise aped Development of Calvinism. This book was written by four different authors with John H. Bratt as editor. Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Co. Price $2.75.
Expository Outlines on the Whole Bible, by Charles Simeon. Published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price per volume $3.95. Ten dollars less for the whole set if ordered before December 31, 1956.
De Verkiezing Gods (God’s Election), by G.C. Berkhouwer. Published by J.H. Kok, N.V., Kampen, the Netherlands. Price f 11.75.
From J.H. Kok, Kampen, the Netherlands, I received a series of pocketbook editions of books that have been published before. On each of these I will make a few remarks. The price of each is f 1.50. Herleefd Verleden (The Past Lived Over) by Prof. Dr. A. Sizoo. This I read…
Augustinus, by Prof. Dr. A. Sizoo. Published by J.H. Kok, N.V., Kampen, the Netherlands. Price (in American money) $4.00, in Dutch money f 13.75.