Temporary Store Closure

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

We have decided to close our doors for the time being. We have dreaded this decision, both because selling books is our livelihood and because we believe that bookstores serve the common good. It is clear to us now, though, that our responsibility to our neighbors and to our own elderly and immune-compromised friends and family is to enact social distancing as rigorously as possible. 

While our doors are locked, we do still hope (and need!) to keep the books flowing out and the rent & grocery money flowing in. We will remain available from 10-5 handling online and phone orders. Here are two options for you to get your books: 

1. Arrange a pick up. Call (503-251-5383) or email (adam@theologybooks.com) with your order, arrange a time, and we will run the books outside to you! Inquiries and wish lists are very welcome.

2. $3 Shipping. For the time being we are offering a flat charge of $3 shipping for up to 5 books. This includes almost any new book in print, shipped direct from our distributor in Roseburg, OR, meaning that books will typically be delivered to West Coast residents within 1-2 days!! (Don’t worry if you live elsewhere––our distributor has warehouses in several states across the US meaning we can get books to any US address very quickly)

3. Buy on our website. With the extra time, we hope to be filling out our offering of books available for direct purchase on our website. Check out our page Books Our Friends Wrote. 

4. Gift Certificates are 10% OFF!! Buy a gift certificate in any denomination at a 10% discount. Our GC’s never expire and are good for new and used books. Call or email me and I’ll ship it to you.

In addition to our regularly-updated $5 Book shelves, we will be posting more pictures of our shop’s sections to our website for a digital browsing experience. Children’s Books are uploaded and browsable for all my fellow parents struggling through the closure of schools and libraries.

Thank you for the support and regard so many of you have shown us already. It means the world. Please continue practicing kindness toward one another and remembering immune-compromised, poor, and elderly folks through the long weeks and months ahead. We will get through this. 

Peace,

Adam, Jared, Jon, Katrina, Jennifer, Sparky

Minimizing Infection Risk at the Bookstore

Friends and Neighbors,

We want to write with an update on our procedures here at the shop for the coronavirus. You are no doubt tiring of these updates by now, but it seems important to make clear our commitment to the following:

– Regularly sanitizing down touchable surfaces

- Keeping hand sanitizer available (we have two massive jugs)

- Regular hand washing by employees

- This Saturday’s NW ETS conference has been cancelled and we will not running tables at any major events for the near future.

We are more than happy to ship orders directly to you, both new books from our distributor warehouse (20% off retail!) as well as anything in the shop. Shipping rates are $4 per book + $1 thereafter.

Speaking of which, we have two cases of Fred Sanders books from the cancelled conference, now available at a drastic discount on our fancy new e-commerce portal on the website.

Please be safe, friends.

Fred Sanders at NW ETS

*UPDATE* The NW ETS conference has been cancelled in accordance with covid-19 preparedness measures. We will continue to have the books available at a considerable discount for the next week or two, hopefully selling enough to cover the cost of shipping them back!

This Saturday we will be selling books at the NW ETS meeting. Among other books, featured speaker Fred Sanders has written two excellent books on the Trinity:

The Triune God [New Studies in Dogmatics]

Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything

Both are available for preorder through our fancy new e-commerce set up here on the website (just click the links). We are happy to offer the conference discount and ship to those of you who will not be attending. If you want to pre-order the book for pickup at the conference, just select “in-store pickup” under shipping.

Fred Sanders is a systematic theologian with an emphasis on the doctrine of the Trinity, teaching at the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. He and his wife Susan have two adult children and are members of Grace Evangelical Free Church. He blogs regularly at Scriptorium Daily.

For Sale: 10,000 Book Lot of Religion, History, & Philosophy

Longtime friends of Wipf & Stock will know that the press was originally started as a joint venture between John Wipf of Archives Bookshop in Pasadena and Jon Stock of Windows Booksellers here in Portland and Eugene. 

While the press has grown in ways we could not have imagined back in 1993, the Eugene bookshop has continued apace, plugging away in the basement of “The Strand" (an old Edsel dealership we share with the publisher), and more recently occupying an old corner grocery store in North Portland. We have been content as a small cohort of book lovers buying and selling quality scholarly books in religion, biblical studies, philosophy, and widely in the humanities.

In recent years we have had the good fortune to acquire many truly excellent collections of books from some great scholars. Unable to say "no" to great books even when duplicated in our inventory, we have found ourselves with more books than we can handle at our current capacity. This is where you come in.

We are offering a collection of 10,000 religion books, very strong in theology, biblical studies, church history, and commentaries. While we do not have an itemized list of the collection, we will be happy to answer any questions and can provide more pictures on request. 90% of the books are in VG+ condition with most of the hardcovers in dust jackets with mylar covers. 

Reasonable offers on this lot will be considered. We are able to coordinate domestic and international shipping and will be happy to answer any questions about the lot or logistical matters. You may inquire with Adam McInturf by email: adam@theologybooks.com. 

If you know of any party who might be interested, whether a new seminary, church library, or upstart bookseller, please feel free to forward this email to them.

Charlie Rauh at the Bookshop this Saturday, October 5th

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2:00 – 3:00

This Saturday afternoon we will be visited by Charlie Rauh, a guitarist based out of New York City. He will be setting up in the shop playing some instrumental tunes for an hour or so beginning at 2:00. Rauh is a composer of solo folk lullabies who has toured extensively and collaborated with the likes of Wilco and the Magnetic Fields. We are very excited for this!! 

So excited that we are going to HAVE FREE COFFEE AND COOKIES to celebrate! 

Here’s a video of Charlie playing “Lullaby for Djupavik.” 

https://youtu.be/V7FYbMyyubs

Missed our big Summer Sidewalk Sale? Here’s another chance!

Missed our big Summer Sidewalk Sale? Here’s another chance!

SATURDAY, JUNE 6th: All books at our book nook in Cathedral Coffee Scappoose will be on sale at $2HC & $1PB. There are amazing books up there––I can testify because I put them there myself!

And next week, back at on home front . . .

All Theology and Biblical Studies will be 30% OFF!

Our big sale in June was a huge success. We moved loads of the $2 & $1 books we set outside, but it seems that book-fatigue set in for many people. There was just too much to process with all those good cheap books out front, so our ancillary goal of clearing space on the shelves for new stock was somewhat unfulfilled. 

So I am extending the sale one more week: Everything in Theology, Biblical Studies, Church History, Devotional, and Biblical Studies will be 30% off from Monday the 8th – Saturday June 13.

Happy Hunting!!

Summer Sidewalk Sale

It is ON: Friday June 21 & Saturday June 22

The time has come for our annual Summer Sidewalk Sale. All in-store inventory will be 30% OFF in addition to thousands of books out on the sidewalk priced at $1/pb and $2/hc. See details in our delightfully pretentious flier!

GREAT COURSES: Religion, Philosophy, Ancient History DVD and CD Lot (93 Sets total)

JUST IN! A large collection of “Great Courses” audio and DVD classes in the following subject areas: Religion, Philosophy, Ancient History DVD and CD Lot (93 Sets total).

The condition is Like New. The price is $750.

Pictures are viewable here.

Contact me if interested! I am happy to ship anywhere. 503-251-5383 | adam (at) theologybooks.com

13 DVD Sets and 80 CD sets.

DVD Sets

    1.    Gnosticism
    2.    Experiencing Rome: A Visual Exploration
    3.    Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World
    4.    Holy Land Revealed
    5.    Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle
    6.    Rome and the Barbarians
    7.    Natural Law and Human Nature
    8.    Great World Religions: Judaism
    9.    Lives of Great Christians
    10.    Historical Jesus
    11.    New Testament
    12.    Augustine’s Confessions
    13.    World History



CD SETS

    1.    History of the Bible
    2.    How Jesus Became God
    3.    Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World
    4.    Persian Empire
    5.    Skeptics and Believers
    6.    Science and Religion
    7.    Why Evil Exists
    8.    World of Biblical Israel
    9.    Age of Pericles
    10.    Ancient Empires before Alexander
    11.    Apocalypse: Controversies and Meaning
    12.    Apostle Paul
    13.    History of Christian Theology
    14.    Herodotus: The Father of History
    15.    History of Christian Theology
    16.    Augustine: Philosopher and Saint
    17.    Biblical Wisdom Literature
    18.    Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome
    19.    Dead See Scrolls
    20.    Exploring the Roots of Religion
    21.    Fall of the Pagans
    22.    Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor
    23.    Greatest Controversies of Christian History
    24.    Great World Religions: Christianity
    25.    Greece and Rome
    26.    The Greek and Persian Wars
    27.    A History of Freedom
    28.    Aenid of Virgil
    29.    After the New Testament
    30.    Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
    31.    American Religious History
    32.    Argumentation
    33.    Beginnings of Judaism
    34.    Between the Rivers
    35.    Book of Genesis
    36.    Bible and Western Culture
    37.    Emperors of Rome
    38.    Era of the Crusades
    39.    Famous Greeks
    40.    God and Mankind: Comparative Religions
    41.    Great Battles of the Ancient World
    42.    Francis of Assisi
    43.    Famous Greeks
    44.    Great Figures of the New Testament
    45.    The History of Ancient Rome
    46.    Introduction to Judaism
    47.    Introduction to the Study of Religion
    48.    Jesus and the Gospels
    49.    History of Christianity in the Reformation Era
    50.    Odyssey of Homer
    51.    Introduction to Greek Philosophy
    52.    Jesus and the Gospels
    53.    Life and Writings of C.S. Lewis
    54.    Lives of Great Christians
    55.    Lost Christianities
    56.    Medieval Heroines in History and Legend
    57.    Luther: Gospel, Law, and Reformation
    58.    Reason and Faith: Philosophy in the Middle Ages
    59.    Philosophy as a Guide to Living
    60.    Religions of the Axial Age
    61.    Questions of Value
    62.    Augustine’s Confessions
    63.    Story of the Bible
    64.    Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World
    65.    Philosophy of Religion
    66.    Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations
    67.    Old Testament
    68.    Practical Philosophy: The Greco-Roman Moralists
    69.    Philosophy and Religion in the West
    70.    Famous Romans
    71.    Introduction to Greek Philosophy (5 Volumes)
    72.    Ancient Greek Civilization
    73.    Early Christianity
    74.    From Jesus to Constantine
    75.    Great Ideas of Philosophy
    76.    Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
    77.    Jewish Intellectual History
    78.    Historical Jesus
    79.    Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
    80.    Classical Mythology