Banner of Truth: What Do We Have to Do To Get Them To Let Logos Publish?

Mark Barnes said:

Vos' Biblical Theology

I'm really surprised this isn't part of Select Works of Geerhardus Vos (14 vols.). It's the only work of his that I'd ever heard of before, and I have it in hard cover. It is a classic.

I would be interested in all these as well! Especially MLJs stuff!

Kent said:

Mark Barnes said:

Dallimore's biographies

Especially the Whitefield 2 volume set

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A friend of mine is currently reading Dallimore's biography of Whitefield. He suggested I also read the biography so we can discuss Whitefield's life together. I'd rather wait until the 2 volume set becomes available in Logos, so would it be enough if I just bought the abridged biography?

Mike Pettit said:

It is a pity that they butchered Pink's "Sovereignty of God" and just to avoid this abomination being published I am happy not to see them in Logos.. Now if Logos published Pink's full text I would welcome their full catalogue and people could make their own mind up and choose which version they want.

What did they do to "Sovereignty of God"?

You can create a personal book of Pink's book using this version from CCEL: 7723.Pink-A-W-Sovereignty-of-God.docx

Now you are free to welcome the rest of BoT's books, no?  [:D]

Todd Phillips said:

Mike Pettit said:

It is a pity that they butchered Pink's "Sovereignty of God" and just to avoid this abomination being published I am happy not to see them in Logos.. Now if Logos published Pink's full text I would welcome their full catalogue and people could make their own mind up and choose which version they want.

What did they do to "Sovereignty of God"?

You can create a personal book of Pink's book using this version from CCEL: 7723.Pink-A-W-Sovereignty-of-God.docx

Now you are free to welcome the rest of BoT's books, no? 

The problem is not that Banner of Truth disagreed with Pink (lets face it we all do to a certain extent, he was not exactly a role model), but that they substantially altered his work without adequate acknowledgement and have been less than candid about what and why they did so.

Pink wrote the first edition in 1918, a second edition followed in 1921 and a third edition in 1929. I. C. Herendon published a fourth edition (an edition that appears to have been published without any agreement of input by Pink) in 1949 and subsequent printings were allocated new edition status but without a fresh “Foreward” i.e. the 1953 edition was dated 1953. There were substantial differences between the first and second editions and smaller changes were made to the third edition. I do not believe that subsequent editions were altered by Pink.

“The Sovereignty of God was republished in 1961 by The Banner of Truth and it is this very strange edition that has been the subject of much debate and argument ever since. Strangely this edition states that the book was first published in 1928 and the publishers preface stated that “it was unanimously agreed that the contemporary value of the book could be increased by certain minor revisions and abridgements”.

What was not acknowledged was that these “minor revisions and abridgements” amounted to removing a third of the book and altering what was left to completely alter its theological perspective in a way that even Iain Murray (of Banner of Truth) accepts was not a view that Pink ever held. It is not just a question of omitting offending chapters, those chapters that are included are censored of any suggestion that God’s love is not universal with whole paragraphs being omitted. The chapters on reprobation were omitted as Murray argues (without any real evidence, and indeed in the face of evidence to the contrary) that Pink changed his convictions in respect of reprobation.

Murray defends the Banner of Truth edition in the final chapter of the second edition of “The Life of Arthur W Pink” and in this chapter he makes the quite startling admission that in respect of the 1929 third edition “How far Pink changed the book in 1929 we cannot tell, for .... no copies of the editions of 1918 or 1921 have been made available to us to make a comparison”. If the development of Pink’s thought is to be considered it appears to me to be necessary to examine to contents of these editions before any proper judgement can be made on how Pink’s thought did develop.

As I have been able to obtain original first, second, fourth and fifth editions copies (1918, 1921, 1949 and 1953) and have a reprint of the third edition it is really not that difficult. The table of contents are as follows, this shows the extent of Murray's revisions:

First edition

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. — The Sovereignty of God Defined
Chapter 2. — The Sovereignty of God in Creation
Chapter 3. — The Sovereignty of God in Administration
Chapter 4. — The Sovereignty of God in Salvation
Chapter 5. — The Sovereignty of God in Operation
Chapter 6. — God's Sovereignty and the Human Will
Chapter 7. — God's Sovereignty and Human Responsibility
Chapter 9. — God's Sovereignty and Prayer
Chapter 8. — Our Attitude Toward God's Sovereignty
Chapter 9. — Difficulties and Objections
Chapter 10. — The Value of This Doctrine
Chapter 11. — Conclusion
Appendix- Reprobation

Second Edition

Foreword to the First Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
Introduction
Chapter 1. — The Sovereignty of God Defined
Chapter 2. — The Sovereignty of God in Creation
Chapter 3. — The Sovereignty of God in Administration
Chapter 4. — The Sovereignty of God in Salvation
Chapter 5. — The Sovereignty of God in Reprobation
Chapter 6. — The Sovereignty of God in Operation
Chapter 7. — God's Sovereignty and the Human Will
Chapter 8. — God's Sovereignty and Human Responsibility
Chapter 9. — God's Sovereignty and Prayer
Chapter 10. — Our Attitude Toward God's Sovereignty
Chapter 11. — Difficulties and Objections
Chapter 12. — The Value of This Doctrine
Conclusion — Conclusion
Appendix A, The Will of God
Appendix B, The Case of Adam
Appendix C, The Meaning of "Kosmos" in John 3:16…

Third Edition

Foreword to the First Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
Foreword to the Third Edition
Foreword to the Fourth Edition
Introduction
Chapter 1. — The Sovereignty of God Defined
Chapter 2. — The Sovereignty of God in Creation
Chapter 3. — The Sovereignty of God in Administration
Chapter 4. — The Sovereignty of God in Salvation
Chapter 5. — The Sovereignty of God in Reprobation
Chapter 6. — The Sovereignty of God in Operation
Chapter 7. — God's Sovereignty and the Human Will
Chapter 8. — God's Sovereignty and Human Responsibility
Chapter 9. — God's Sovereignty and Prayer
Chapter 10. — Our Attitude Toward God's Sovereignty
Chapter 11. — Difficulties and Objections
Chapter 12. — The Value of This Doctrine
Conclusion — Conclusion
Appendix A, The Will of God
Appendix B, The Case of Adam
Appendix C, The Meaning of "Kosmos" in John 3:16…
Appendix D, 1 John 2:2

Banner of Truth Edition

Introduction
Sovereignty of God Defined and the Present Day
The Sovereignty of God Defined
The Sovereignty of God in Creation
The Sovereignty of God in Administration
The Sovereignty of God in Salvation
The Sovereignty of God in Operation
God's Sovereignty and the Human Will
God's Sovereignty and Prayer
Our Attitude Toward God's Sovereignty
The Value of This Doctrine
Conclusion

Again I am not suggesting that people cannot disagree with Pink here, but it is misleading and really bad scholarship to change someone else's book for theological reasons without proper and full explanation and attribution.

Not that this is a hobby horse of mine or anything

Mike Pettit said:

Third Edition

Foreword to the First Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
Foreword to the Third Edition
Foreword to the Fourth Edition

There's something wrong there.  Why would a 3rd edition have a forward to the 4th edition?

Mike Pettit said:

You can create a personal book of Pink's book using this version from CCEL: 7723.Pink-A-W-Sovereignty-of-God.docx

Which edition is this?

I have wrote a number of times to BT, I personally would love to possess
many of the books that have printed past present, surely there must be a
way to access these resources.

It would be great to get their magazine (ie journal) as a starting point. 

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