Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 104:416 (Oct 1947)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous

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Book Reviews

Addresses on First And Second Thessalonians. By H. A. Ironside, Litt.D. Loizeaux Bros., New York, N.Y. 121 pp. $1.50.

This work is another timely study of New Testament books by one whose exposition is always a blessing to the children of God. These epistles contain some of the most important features of Christian doctrine and the knowledge of them is imperative. None in the present generation can present these truths more effectively than Dr. H. A. Ironside. All Christians should aim to possess the expository writings of Dr. Ironside.

President Lewis Sperry Chafer

Expository Notes on the Epistles of James and Peter. By H. A. Ironside, Litt.D. Loizeaux Bros., New York. 166 pp. $2.00.

This treatment of James is of greatest value and should be read by all who are seeking to have a true knowledge of the Scriptures. There has been much written on the character of the Epistle of James, some of which has disappointed, so it is refreshing to read these clear, sane pages of exposition proceeding section by section through this Letter by James. What Dr. Ironside writes is always of great value because of his long experience as an author and because he is one who has a right understanding of the truth. The Expository Notes on the Epistles of Peter are also invaluable. Both these books, which appear in one binding, are important and Christians need to study them.

President Lewis Sperry Chafer

Modern Trends in Islam. By H. A. R. Gibb. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1947. 141 pp. $2.50.

Dr. Gibb is Laudian Professor of Arabic in the University of Oxford, and this volume comprises his 1945 Haskell Lectures in Comparative Religion at the University of Chicago. The book is divided into six chapters: “The Foundations of

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Islamic Thought”; “The Religious Tension in Islam”; “The Principles of Modernism”; “Modernist Religion”; “Law and Society”; and “Islam in the World.”

In the foreword the author reviews in brief the extant material from more recent decades on religious thought in Islam. Dr. Gibb, in setting forth the principles which determine his point of view, states: “While giving full weight to the historical structure of Muslim thought and experience, I see it also as an evolving organism, recasting from time to time the content of its symbolism, even though the recasting is concealed (as it is to a considerable extent in Christianity) by the rigidity of its outward formulas” (p. vi). The writer frankly admits the subjective character of his conclusions (p. xii).

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