Review of “A Sound Mind” by LG Sargent
This book consists of a series of essays by brother Sargent that have appeared in The Christadelphian. Most of them are quite short, about four to five pages, and each can be read in a few minutes. So here is …
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The TestimonyAfter The Christadelphian, The Testimony is the oldest magazine still in publication. Edited from the UK and distributed in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States the magazine has a fairly wide readership. Editorial aim is “the study and defense of holy scripture”.
“Are We Ready For Another Time of Testing?” by Graham Pearce
“Russia’s vast military superiority at all essential points of contact with the West is now the dominating factor in the world balance of power.”
So ran a recent editorial in the Daily Telegraph (2.8.1971). It went on to …
Review of “Loving On Principle: A Realistic Approach to Morals” (1969) by Dicken
The above title might easily put one off reading a book of great value. Carefully written with up-to-date reference to beliefs or lack of them, Trueman Dicken analyses the impact of modern thought on the Gospel as taught by Christ …
Review of “Do You Understand the New Covenant?” (1972) by Graham Pearce
“Like the Malarious upas*, it infects and deadens everything beneath its shade. We repudiate it in all its details of theory and practice as irremediably corrupt.”
So wrote John Thomas of the established Church. What then distinguished the gospel he …
Review of “Life Worth Living” by H. Trevor Hughes
This is primarily a book for teachers and as suggested in the preface can be used in a variety of ways. For example, the material in each chapter can be adapted to the age and ability of the class; or …
Review of “Is The Bible True?” (1965) by Allen Bowmen
One of our most important tasks whether in public lectures or private conversation is to show the complete trustworthiness and reliability of the Bible in every respect. Upon this foundation faith can be built, faith in the salvation promised.
This …
Review of “Why Christadelphians shouldn’t buy lottery tickets” by E Farrar
A Reviews Editor has to become accustomed to receiving all sorts of printed material unsolicited through the post. Most of the unusual items come, of course, from non-Christadelphian sources: titles like Irregular People and Not quite Heaven, whose contents do …
“The Exiled and the Redeemed— The Strange Jewish ‘Tribes’ of the Orient” (1958) by Itzhak Ben-Zvi
As the President of the State of Israel, the author of the book before us must be impartial and uphold the Proclamation of Independence, which grants, among other hings, that “The State of Israel will be open to the immigration of …
Review of “Studies in the Gospels” by Harry Whittaker
The Basis of the gospel is to be found in the life and teachings of the historical Son of God as he lived in Palestine during the first century, demonstrating the Father to those who were with him. Their response …
Review of “Discovering Jerusalem” (1983) by Nahman Avigad
Jerusalem has been excavated for a century or more, but the most exciting and rewarding digs have been in recent years. An area that has never been excavated before only became accessible in 1967, as a result of the Six-Day …
Review of “Crisis of Conscience”(1983) by Raymond Franz
Raymond Franz was born in 1920 into a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses. His uncle, Fred Franz, a member of the Governing Body in Brooklyn, New York, was regarded as their best Bible student. It was quite normal to refer matters …
Reflections on “Born of the Wilderness” (1954) by Ritchie Calder
A years ago, Ritchie Calder, C.B.E., Science Editor of the News Chronicle, at the request of Unesco,2 made his “Men Against the Desert” expedition from the Western Sahara, across the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, to the …
Papering Over the Doctrinal Cracks
When Any religious group publishes a statement of faith, that is something worth reading. When one of the major churches does so, in response to a difference of opinion between members, that is likely to be especially interesting. In earlier …
Review of “Exodus Revisited” (1971) by Leon Uris
This is a specially abridged edition of a book first published in 1962 under the title In the Steps of Exodus.
This Corgi edition, dated 1971, deals in mainly pictorial form with the development of Israel from the First Aliyah …
Review of “`Spirit’ in the New Testament” (1985) by Whittaker & Carr
The Use of the word Spirit’ in the New Testament is frequent and fundamental to passages dealing with the first-century organisation of the church, and also with the relationship of believers to Divine salvation. And those who put God’s truth …
Review of “The Riddle of the New Testament” (1931) by Hoskyns & Davey
Those who find no difficulties in the New Testament will be surprised that it should present an enigma to those who have critically considered it. On the other hand those who are interested to know what work has been done …
John Thomas: Early Years
Most readers of The Testimony will agree that Dr John Thomas’ deserves a high place in the list of men who have helped our understanding of Scripture. He was not trained in any theological school: in later years opponents sometimes …
Review of “The Wicked One Revealed” (1942) by Frank Walker
The late Brother Frank Walker, “Printer and Publisher, 41 Stokes Croft, Bristol”, guided many books, pamphlets and magazines through his press in the 1930s and ’40s, and a number of them (for example, Helps for the Christian Warfare and Answers …
Review of “The Dragon and the Lamb” by Holton & Pearce
It Is Now almost exactly 20 years since the publication of the first edition of The Dragon and the Lamb, and its reappearance in a new edition is greatly to be welcomed. Described by its new publishers, the Christadelphian Scripture …
What evidence do we have that the first Five Books of the Old Testament were written by Moses?
“Higher Criticism”, which seeks to establish questions of date and authorship, alleges that “the Hebrew traditions respecting Israel’s origins and early history were probably first cast into a written form in the 10th or 9th c. B.C., by a Prophet …
Does obedience to the commands of Jesus Christ permit the taking of Oaths?
The words of Christ, “Swear not at all” (Matt. 5, 34) and of James, “But above all things, my brethren, swear not” (James 5, 12) appear to answer the question in the negative; yet to some there is, at least, …
Jesus’ Return to the Jews
Jesus comes to Jerusalem
In previous articles we have shown how the Song of Solomon may have been originally sung to celebrate the coronation of Solomon as God’s king – which was at the same time a symbolic marriage between …
A Time Of Separation
Joy and Sorrow
Even a cursory reader of the Song of Solomon will be aware that the joy and blessings presented in the picture of the bride and bridegroom are under laid with a theme of sorrow, and sometimes of …
Persecution and Jewish Conflict with Rome
Vespasian, the emperor who was reigning in A.D. 70, died in A.D. 79, and was followed by his son Titus, the general who had destroyed Jerusalem. Titus was succeeded by the younger son of Vespasian, Flavius Domitianus (Domitian), a tyrant …
The Nature of the Jewish and Roman Relationship
There can be no doubt that the Roman occupation of Judea proved to be one of the unhappiest times for the Jews in all their history. The relationship between the Roman rulers and the Jewish inhabitants of the land was …
Review of “Mind and Cosmos” (2012) by Thomas Nagel
This book will please very few. Atheists will be, and have been, upset or bemused by one of their own rejecting the standard line of materialist reductionism and arguing instead for the irreducibility of consciousness, intentionality and value. They will …
Review of “Paul’s Epic Journey to Rome” (2013) by Tom Barling
This book brings together a number of articles by the late Brother Tom Barling originally published in The Testimony magazine. The book is lovingly introduced by Reg Carr, who writes of Brother Barling’s “lasting legacy of Bible scholarship” of which …
Review of “Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels” (2006) by Craig Evans
Craig Evans is a distinguished New Testament scholar who has written extensively on the historical Jesus and served on the advisory board on the Gospel of Judas for the National Geographic Society. He is well placed to evaluate the various …
Review of “Do Historical Matters Matter To Faith?” (2012)
This collection of twenty-two essays by respected conservative archaeologists and biblical scholars, like Alan Millard and Craig Blomberg, was occasioned by the publication of God’s Word in Human Words by Kenton Sparks. In that book Sparks queries the inerrancy of …
Extract from “Prophecy of Joel” (2013) by Mark Allfree
Introduction
Joel is a fascinating little book. Whilst his prophecy consists of only three chapters – a total of 73 verses – it has a very wide-ranging scope. Not only did Joel speak of momentous, earth-shattering events that were taking …