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Win the Tyndale Ministry Collection from Logos

tyndale-ministry-collectionLogos is giving away a copy of their nine-volume  Tyndale Ministry Collection.  The book collects a number of books by Greg Laurie (Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California), but all nine books are designed to help with discipleship and church growth.

  • How to Live Forever by Greg Laurie
  • Jesus Up Close: Meet Him. . . . Like Never Before by Skip Heitzig
  • New Believer’s Guide to Effective Christian Living: First Steps for New Christians by Greg Laurie
  • New Believer’s Guide to How to Share Your Faith: First Steps for New Christians by Greg Laurie
  • New Believer’s Guide to Prayer: First Steps for New Christians by Greg Laurie
  • Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling by Mark R. McMinn
  • Revolution by George Barna
  • The Upside Down Church by Greg Laurie
  • Why Believe?: Exploring the Honest Questions of Seekers by Greg Laurie

The winner will be chosen at random on August 19th and the collection will be sent to the winner’s Logos account. If you don’t have a Logos account, you can sign up for free here and download free apps to read your books on any device here.

How to Enter. Go to Steve K. McCoy’s site and enter the contest up to 13 times.  Each prompted action you follow will earn you additional entries. You can always come back and share a link to the giveaway with your friends for additional entries.

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Free Book from Logos – Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall

Creation and FallLogos Bible Software has another nice selection for their “Free Book of the Month” promotion. This month they are partnering with Fortress Press to offer volume three of the Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall. This volume is a new translation by Douglas Stephen Bax based on the German edition edited by Renate Bethge And Ilse Tödt. The 224 pages hardback edition retails at $40, although a paperback and Kindle edition is available.

Creation and Fall was originally a series of lectures on Genesis 1-4 given by Bonhoeffer at the University of Berlin (Winter, 1932-33). The series editor John W. De Gruchy comments ” It was a winter of profound discontent in Germany; it was also a time of confusion, anxiety, and, for many, false hope, as social and political upheavals led to the demise of the Weimar Republic and the birth of the Third Reich. In the midst of these events Bonhoeffer called his students to focus their attention on the word of God as the word of truth in a time of turmoil” (1).

Logos is also offering an “almost free” book: volume seven of the Bonhoeffer collection, Fiction from Tegel Prison, translated by Nancy Lukens and edited by Clifford J. Green. Bonhoeffer spent eighteen months at the Tegel Prison before being moved to the Gestapo prison on Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse in October, 1944.  The text of this collection is drawn from Bonhoeffer’s own handwritten manuscripts of an incomplete drama and novel. This material may be unfamiliar to readers of more popular works such as Ethics or The Cost of Discipleship. The short story was not published until 1970 and the drama and novel not until 1978. Of these stories, Bonhoeffer said “There is a good deal of autobiography mixed with it.” Since these incomplete stories were written in his final years in prison, they offer an insight into Bonhoeffer’s heart in those difficult years. This book is a great value at 99 cents for the month of August.

As always, Logos is offering a chance to win the complete 16 volume collection of  Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, valued at well over $400 in the Logos library. Actually, since the giveaway uses PunchTab, you get 24 chances at the collection. The free/almost free book deal runs through the month of August.

Logos “Free Book of the Month” for July – Hans Iwand’s The Righteousness of Faith According to Luther

InwaldLogos Bible Software is offering another nice little in their “Free Book of the Month” promotion.  Partnering with Wipf & Stock this month, Logos is giving away a copy of Hans J. Iwand’s The Righteousness of Faith According to Luther (Wipf & Stock, 2008). Hans J. Iwand (1899-1960) was professor of theology at Gottingen and Bonn. This translation of the 1941 Glaubensgerechtigkeit nach Luthers Lehre was made by Randi H. Lundell. According to the W&S catalog, the book “is an important contribution to contemporary appreciation of Luther’s theological significance for today. Although Iwand wrote his study three decades after the beginning of the Luther Renaissance, it nevertheless developed some of the central insights of Luther scholarship during that period.”

In addition to this free book, Logos is also offering an “almost free” book, Brett Muhlhan, Being Shaped by Freedom: An Examination of Luther’s Development of Christian Liberty (Wipf & Stock 2012). Robert Kolb of Concordia Seminary says  “This refreshing analysis contributes significantly to our understanding of the holistic view of Christian righteousness fashioned by Luther’s distinctions of law and gospel and of two kinds of human righteousness.” Muhlhan contents that we can confidently affirm that Luther did indeed get Christian freedom right and that he did not fail to live by the implications of this radical theology (from the cover). The book is only 99 cents for a limited time.

The give-away this month is also Luther-related: Select Studies in Martin Luther’s Life and Influence, Part 1 (15 vols) from Wipf & Stock. The print versions of these books would run well over $300.

 

The Epistle to the Hebrews, Ceslas Spicq

SpicqThere was one other bit of Logos Bible Software news I wanted to pass along. Logos is preparing an English translation of Ceslas Spicq’s two-volume commentary L’Épitre aux Hébreux (1952-53)If you have done any work in Hebrews, you know Spicq’s commentary is constantly cited.  His detailed discussion on the relationship between Hebrews and Philo is foundational for later studies.

Logos has listed the translation of Spicq’s commentary as a “pre-pub” special. This means if you pre-order the book, it is only $39.95. But Logos does not produce the book until they have sufficient interest. Spicq’s Hebrews commentary is “almost there,” but there are not quite enough pre-orders to begin work. The book is very difficult to find and expensive to purchase even if you do find a copy for sale, so $39.95 is a reasonable price for the first English translation. Anyone working in Hebrews should invest in this book and encourage Logos to produce more original translations like this.

Logos is also working on Aquinas’ Commentary on Jeremiah and Isaiah but there are other important works I would love to see translated to English, such as Adolf Jülicher, Die gleichnisreden Jesu (Mohr Siebeck, 1888). Ideally, it would be fantastic if Logos could not only publish the electronic version of these books, but also a short-run print version (perhaps through Wipf & Stock) so traditional libraries can add them tot heir collections.

Any other suggestions for Logos as a publisher of translated works?

Logos “Free Book of the Month” for June – Walter Brueggemann

Spirituality in the PsalmsLogos Bible Software is offering another nice little in their “Free Book of the Month” promotion.  Partnering with Fortress, Logos is giving away a copy of Spirituality of the Psalms by Walter Brueggemann. This 96 page book was originally released in 2001 in the Facets series and is an abridged version of his Message of the Psalms.  Brueggemann is an engaging writer who has written often on the Psalms, so this is a welcome addition to any Logos Library.

David's TruthIn addition to this free book, Logos is also offering an “almost free” book, Brueggemann David’s Truth: In Israel’s Imagination and Memory (Amazon). This is the second edition, published by Fortress in 2002 as an update to the 1985 edition. The second edition permitted Brueggemann to interact with several recent monographs on David. As he says in the introduction to the second edition, Brueggemann was moving away from historical criticism in that first edition toward “rhetorical and sociological dimensions of interpretation.”

The book is only 99 cents for a limited time. Be sure to enter to win a 24 Book Walter Brueggemann collection ($399 value!)