Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 101:402 (Apr 1944)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous

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Book Reviews

Dictionary of Bible Topics. By Theodore Graebner, D.D. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids. 278 pp. $2.00.

Dr. Graebner is a professor in Concordia Theological Seminary of St. Louis. The volume he has prepared covers a very wide field of important topics. Under “Studies in Biblical Interpretation” there are forty-five separate themes; under “Bible Land Rambles” there are forty themes; under “Biblical Archaeology and History” there are thirty-eight themes.

Agreement is not accorded in every phase of doctrine advanced, but the book is a very genuine contribution to accurate understanding of the great majority of the subjects presented and cannot but be profitable to a very unusual degree. The title is ambitious. Since the topics are but a series selected and not exhaustive of all Bible topics, the reader will not expect to find here a complete Bible dictionary. The index adds much to the usefulness of this splendid volume.

President Lewis Sperry Chafer

Into All the World. By Samuel M. Zwemer, D.D. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids. 222 pp. $2.00.

Dr. Zwemer needs no introduction. This volume, perhaps the best of the many he has written, coming from this great missionary statesman, bears, as would be expected, upon the greatest of all enterprises-Christian Missions. The subtitle directs the thought more clearly into the channel which the book follows, namely, The Great Commission, a vindication and an interpretation.

In his foreword Dr. Zwemer states, “An emasculated Christianity has no power of propaganda and no missionary passion. The present-day trend of theological thought, however, is away from yesterday’s naturalism and relativism. So we have tried in this little book, in some small degree, to weigh the overwhelming evidence for the genuineness of Christ’s Great Commission and for the finality of His teaching. Three chapters deal with the place of Jesus Christ in

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the Old and New Testaments; five chapters with the Great Commission, its authority and its implications; while the remaining chapters tell of apostolic aims, methods, dynamic, qualifications, message and call. As the critical days in which we live call for heroism in defence of liberty and truth so the present opportunities and difficulties of the missionary enterprise challenge the youth of today. Saint Paul has much to teach us, and in going back to him we go back to Christ. Some of the chapters were given as lectures at the Missionary Training Institute, Nyack, N.Y., the Biblical Seminary in New York, and two of them at the Dallas Theological Seminary, Texas. Chapter IV appe...