Choice Evangelical Books: 1959

The best books of 1959 from a strictly evangelical point of view, in the judgment ofCHRISTIANITY TODAY’Seditorial staff, are listed below. The year saw many significant gains in conservative Protestant literature. These volumes are not the only meritorious publications, nor do they reflect the convictions of all evangelical groups. But the selections propound evangelical perspectives in a significant way, or apply biblical doctrines effectively to modern currents of thought and life.

BLACKWOOD, ANDREW W., ed.: Evangelical Sermons of Our Day (Harper, 383 pp., $5.95). Thirty-seven select messages from a cross-section of evangelical preaching.

BLAIKLOCK, E. M.: The Acts of the Apostles (London: Tyndale Press, 168 pp., 9s.6d.). An historical commentary viewing the apostolic age in its Greek and Roman setting.

BRUCE, F. F.: Biblical Exegesis in the Qumran Texts (Eerdmans, 82 pp., $2.50). Discloses the principle of biblical interpretation employed by Qumran writers.

CARNELL, E. J.: The Case for Orthodox Theology (Westminster, 162 pp., $3.50). A challenging though controversial apologetic for the evangelical faith.

HALL, CLARENCE W.: Adventurers for God (Harper, 265 pp., $3.75). Thrilling stories of missionary heroes.

HENRY, CARL F. H., ed.: Revelation and the Bible (Baker, 413 pp., $6). Twenty-four international scholars expound the evangelical view of the Scriptures.

KUIPER, R. B.: For Whom Did Christ Die? (Eerdmans, 100 pp., $2). Calvinistic teaching on the death of Christ alongside the Arminian and neo-orthodox views.

LADD, GEORGE E.: The Gospel of the Kingdom (Eerdmans, 143 pp., $2.75). A popular, non-polemic presentation of biblical teaching about the Kingdom.

LASOR, WILLIAM S.: Great Personalities of the Old Testament (Revell, 192 pp., $3). Portrayals soundly based on the scriptural data, modern archaeological research and ancient literature and divine revelation.

LLOYD-JONES, D. MARTYN: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (Eerdmans, 320 pp., $4.50). The devout English expositor’s study in depth of Christ’s words as recorded in Matthew.

LEUPOLD, HERBERT C.: Exposition of the Psalms (Wartburg, 1,010 pp., $8.75). Newest addition to the author’s well-known Old Testament commentaries.

MCCLAIN, ALVA J.: The Greatness of the Kingdom (Zondervan, 556 pp., $6.95). An exhaustive biblical exposition in a dispensational frame of reference.

MIXTER, RUSSELL L., ed.: Evolution and Christian Thought Today (Eerdmans, 224 pp., $4.50). Fourteen scholars consider the status of the theory of evolution a century after Darwin’s Origin of Species.

MURRAY, JOHN: The Imputation of Adam’s Sin (Eerdmans, 95 pp., $2). The classical Protestant doctrine presented with relevance to modern theological views.

PELIKAN, JAROSLAV: The Riddle of Roman Catholicism (Abingdon, 272 pp., $4). A fresh evaluation of Romanism from the Protestant perspective, acknowledging certain values in the Roman tradition.

PFEIFFER, CHARLES F.: Between the Testaments (Baker, 124 pp., $2.95). A study of intertestamentary times given fresh significance by the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

PLASS, EWALD: What Luther Says (3 vols., Concordia). A scholarly and systematic collation and translation of the great reformer’s utterances.

SASSE, HERMAN H.: This is My Body (Augsburg, 433 pp., $7). A definitive and comprehensive treatise of Luther’s doctrine of the “real presence” in the sacrament of the Lord’s supper.

VAN TIL, HENRY R.: The Calvinistic Concept of Culture (Baker, 245 pp., $4.50). The relationship of religion and culture from the Calvinistic point of view.

WALLIS, ETHEL E. AND BENNETT, MARY A.: Two Thousand Tongues to Go (Harper, 308 pp., $3.95). The romance of the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the language of the world.

WHITCOMB, JR., JOHN C.: Darius the Mede (Eerdmans, 84 pp., $2.75). A noteworthy archaeological contribution in support of the historicity of Daniel.

WIRT, SHERWOOD E.: Crusade at the Golden Gate (Harper, 176 pp., $2.75). The gripping story of Billy Graham’s San Francisco campaign.

WISEMAN, D. J.: Illustrations from Bible Archaeology (Eerdmans, 112 pp., $3.50). A conservative approach to biblical problems by an archaeologist on the British Museum staff.

YOUNG, EDWARD J.: The Study of Old Testament Theology Today (Revell, 112 pp., $3). A bold and authoritative affirmation of the orthodox view of God’s redemptive work in history.

ZIMMERMAN, PAUL A., ed.: Darwin, Evolution and Creation (Concordia, 231 pp., $3.95). A company of Lutheran scholars give a centennial appraisal of the Darwinian theory.

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