■ Just Out: Abridged but still formidable is Richard Hooker’s classic, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastic Polity (St. Martin’s, $16.95). . . . Muggeridge’s latest is big, illustrated, and among all his books surely the one he cares about most: Jesus: The Man Who Lives (Harper, $17.95). . . . Hugo Black Jr. recalls My Father (Random, $8.95). . . . Richard Ginder, once America’s most widely read conservative priest, now surfaces with Binding with Briars: Sex and Sin in the Catholic Church, scores the Church for rigidity—especially on homosexuality (Prentice-Hall, $8.95).
■ Religious Publishing: Protestant books are booming, all of them on the conservative side theologically. No fewer than 26 titles have sold over one million copies in recent years, according to Christian News Service. Easily the champ: Kenneth Taylor, whose slangy translation, The Living Bible, had sold over 18 million copies by the end of 1974. The supersellers cover themes familiar in evangelical Protestantism: Scripture, self-help, exhortation, a dash of the apocalyptic. The clearest signal may be coming out of Harper & Row, whose religion department has long been a citadel of liberal Protestantism. Harper is launching Jubilee, a paperback line that will test the evangelical waters.
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