WILLIAM BARCLAY, Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at Glasgow University, is a distinguished scholar of international repute, a gifted preacher, broadcaster and journalist. From his pen has come a wide range of best-selling religious books. His Daily Study Bible has already sold over a million copies and the breadth of sympathy he displays in such writing as The Plain Man's Book of Prayers has earned him the respect of thousands of ordinary people. A time of plenty when all have enough.... A time when animals and men live in friendship.... -A time when there is peace over all the...

Conversion' writes William Barclay in his Foreword, is a subject which very much needs our thought ...Very certainly, conversion is a word which can never be eliminated from the vocabulary of the Christiann, but equally certain the means towards it and the results of it must alter from generation to generation.' Here is an important, introductory study of the subject from the biblical viewpoint and of the means and results which attend it. To these has been added an previously unpublished Epilogue in whichthe Christian way is carefully described, high-lighting the demands of discipleship...

Man is continually involved in a twofold combat situation: of having to wrestle with himself, and with the problems which surround him in society. In this book William Barclay expounds the thinking of Paul on these problems as it is set out in Galatians 5, and shows that through Christ the perfect and adequate release is found.

How did the Bible, the Canon of Holy Scripture, evolve into the form in which it exists today? This book tells us how. The study of the Canon has come to be looked upon as one of the dry and less -interesting fields of Bible study. That a great pity, for it is by such study that we come to see the essential greatness of Scripture."

'The task of the Christian Church in this, as in any other age, is to communicate to men the truth of God as we find it in the word of God, ' writes the author. Dr Barclay. rightly described as one of the foremost communicators of Christianity today, here sets about that task, of showing how and why it should be done. As always. his work is written against the full biblical background ('Communicating the Gospel in the Prophets"); a description of the way the Apostles went about their task ('Communicating the Gospel in the Apostles'): thence to the challenge of doing so today ('we can never...