Daily Gleanings: Free Books (9 December 2019)
For December, Logos is offering Jaroslav Pelikan’s Acts commentary for free. Verbum is offering Thomas Aquinas’s commentary on Matthew.
For December, Logos is offering Jaroslav Pelikan’s Acts commentary for free. Verbum is offering Thomas Aquinas’s commentary on Matthew.
This week is the last chance to grab the Faithlife platforms’ free and deeply discounted volumes this month. All three have resources of interest here.
Daily Gleanings about a couple free works by Origen, courtesy of Verbum, as well as deep discounts on related resources.
Daily Gleanings about free books for August 2019 from Logos and Verbum.
Daily Gleanings about books available for free—or otherwise deeply discounted—this month from Logos and Verbum.
This month, the Logos Bible Software site is highlighting Mark Noll’s The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity (Eerdmans, 2002), which is on sale for free. Similarly, the Verbum site is highlighting John Donahue and Daniel Harrington’s Mark volume in the Sacra Pagina series (Liturgical, 2002), which is available for free.
In addition to special offers around John Frame’s Salvation belongs to the Lord, Faithlife has some other noteworthy deals this month:
March’s free and reduced-price companion
volumes from Faithlife
include:
Logos: Paula Gooder, This Risen Existence: The Spirit of Easter, and for $1.99, Dennis Ngien, Fruit for the Soul: Luther on the Lament Psalms Verbum: Bonaventure, The Life of Saint Francis, and for $0.99, Bonaventure, Mystical Opuscula
I haven’t yet found a dedicated Spanish “free book of the month” page, but the past several months have also had on offer a free Spanish resource. This month’s is, in translation, A. W. Pink’s Reflexiones paulinas: Estudios en las oraciones del Apóstol (vol. 1).
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This month, Verbum has Joseph
Fitzmyer’s Impact
of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paulist, 2009) available for free. The
$0.99 companion volume is Fitzmyer’s Interpretation
of Scripture: In Defense of the Historical-Critical
Method (Paulist, 2008).
Verbum products will download, integrate, and run with Logos-branded engines and base packages also.
Harrington, Revelation (Sacra Pagina)
Verbum’s free book for October is Wilfrid Harrington’s Sacra Pagina volume on Revelation:
More than any other New Testament writing, the Book of Revelation demands commentary. Its often-bewildering text is easily open to less-than-scholarly interpretation.
Wilfrid Harrington brings his scholarship to the Book of Revelation and conveys its Christian message. He puts the work in its historical and social setting—a first-century CE province of the Roman Empire—and explores its social and religious background and its literary character. Through Harrington we hear clearly the challenge of John, the prophet, to the churches of his time—and to ours—not to compromise the Gospel message.
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