Reading List

Anderson, Paul N. “The Having-Sent-Me Father: Aspects of Agency, Encounter, and Irony in the Johannine Father-Son Relationship.”
Semeia 85, no. 1 (1999): 33-57.

Banks, Robert and Julia Bank. The Church Comes Home: Regrouping the People of God for Community and Mission.
Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1997.

Barrett, Lois Y. Storm Front: The Good News of God.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

Barrett, Lois Y. Treasures in Clay Jars: Patterns in Missional Faithfulness.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

Blauw, Johannes. The Missionary Nature of the Church: A Survey of the Biblical Theology of Mission.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962.

Bliese, Richard. “The Mission Matrix: Mapping Out the Complexities of a Missional Ecclesiology.”
Word & World 26, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 237-248.

Bosch, David J. “Evangelism: Theological Currents & Cross-currents Today,”
International Bulletin of Missionary Research 11, no. 3 (July 1987): 99.

Bosch, David J. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission.
Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1991.

Bosch, David J. Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Culture.
Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1995.

Christensen, Derek. “Marketplace and Missional Church.”
Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought & Practice 13, no. 1 (February 2005): 13-18.

Cole, Neil. Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Dubose, Francis. God Who Sends: A Fresh Quest for Biblical Mission.
Nashville: Broadman, 1983.

Engelsviken, Tormod. “Missio Dei: The Understanding and Misunderstanding of a Theological Concept in European Churches.”
International Review of Mission 92, no. 367 (October 2003): 481-497

Ferreira, Johan. Johannine Ecclesiology.
Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

Fjeld, Roger W. “A Set-Apart and a Sending-Out Community.”
Currents in Theology and Mission 16, no. 5 (Oct. 1989): 337-340.

Frost, Michael and Alan Hirsch. The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church.
Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2003.

Frost, Michael. Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture.
Hendrickson, 2006.

Glasser, Arthur F. and Charles Van Engen. Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God’s Mission in the Bible.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003.

Goheen, Michael W. “The Missional Church: Ecclesiological Discussion in the Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America.”
Missiology 30, no. 4 (October 2002): 479-490.

Goheen, Michael W. “As the Father Has Sent Me, I Am Sending You: Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology.”
International Review of Mission 91, no. 362 (July 2002): 354.

Guder, Darrell L. Be My Witnesses: The Church’s Mission, Message, and Messengers.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985.

Guder, Darrell L. “Incarnation and the Church’s Evangelistic Mission,”
International Review of Missions 83, no. 330 (July 1994): 417-28.

Guder, Darrell L. Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

Guder, Darrell L. “Missional Theology for a Missionary Church.”
Journal for Preachers 22, no. 1 (1998): 3-11.

Guder, Darrell L. The Incarnation and the Church’s Witness.
Wipf & Stock, 2005.

Guder, Darrell L. The Continuing Conversion of the Church.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

Guder, Darrell L. “Worthy Living: Work and Witness from the Perspective of Missional Church Theology.”
Word & World 25, no. 4 (Fall 2005): 424-432.

Hauerwas, Stanley. After Christendom? How the Church Is to Behave If Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas.
Nashville: Abingdon, 1991.

Hirsch, Alan. The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church.
Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2006.

Homan, Daniel O.S.B. and Lonni Collins Pratt. Radical Hospitality: Benedict’s Way of Love.
Paraclete Press, 2005.

Hunsberger, George R. “Birthing Missional Faithfulness: Accents in a North American Movement.”
International Review of Mission 92, no. 365 (April 2003): 145-152.

Hunsberger, George, and Craig Van Gelder. The Church Between Gospel and Culture: The Emerging Mission in North America.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

Keifert, Patrick R. We Are Here Now: A New Missional Era.
Eagle, Idaho: Allelon, 2006.

Koenig, John. New Testament Hospitality: Partnership with Strangers as Promise and Mission.
Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.

Kostenberger, Andreas J. “The Place of Mission in New Testament Theology: An Attempt to Determine the Significance of Mission within the Scope of the New Testament’s Message as a Whole.”
Missiology 27, no. 3 (July 1999): 347-362.

Kostenberger, Andreas J. and Peter T. O’Brian. Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission.
InterVarsity, 2001.

Kraybill, Donald B. Upside-Down Kingdom.
Scottdale, Penn.: Herald, 2003.

Larkin, William J. Jr. and Joel F. Williams. Mission in the New Testament: An Evangelical Approach.
Orbis, 1998.

Matthey, Jacques. “God’s Mission Today: Summary and Conclusions.”
International Review of Mission 92, no. 367 (October 2003) 579-587.

Mercer, Calvin. “Jesus the Apostle: Sending & the Theology of John.”
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 35, no. 4 (Dec. 1992): 457-462.

Minatrea, Milfred. Shaped by God’s Heart: The Passion & Practices of Missional Churches.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.

Murray, Stuart. Post-Christendom: Church and Mission in a Strange New World.
Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004.

Myers, Joseph R. The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community and Small Groups.
Zondervan, 2003.

Myers, Joseph R. Organic Community: Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect.
Baker, 2007.

Newbigin, Lesslie. Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986.

Newbigin, Lesslie. The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.

Newbigin, Lesslie. The Open Secret: Introduction to a Theology of Mission.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.

Norman, Stanton R. ed. The Mission of Today’s Church.
Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2007.

Nussbaum, Stan. A Reader’s Guide to Transforming Mission.
Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2005.

Oldenburg, Ray. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of the Community.
Marlowe & Company, 1999.

Peatross, Fred. Missio Dei – in the Crisis of Christianity.
Cold Tree Press, 2007.

Peterson, Jim and Mike Shamy. The Insider: Bringing the Kingdom of God Into Your Everyday World.
NavPress, 2003.

Pohl, Christine D. Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Randall, Ian M. “Mission in post-Christendom: Anabaptist and Free Church Perspectives.”
Evangelical Quarterly 79, no. 3 (July 2007): 227-240.

Riem, Roland. “Mission-Shaped Church: An Emerging Critique.”
Ecclesiology 3, no. 1 (September 2006): 125-139.

Roxburgh, Alan J. The Sky is Falling: Leaders Lost in Transition.
Eagle, Idaho: ACI Publishing, 2005.

Roxburgh, Alan J. & Fred Romanuk. The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.

Rusaw, Rick and Eric Swanson. The Externally Focused Church.
Loveland, CO: Group, 2004.

Samson, Will and Lisa Samson. Justice in the Burbs: Becoming the Hands of Jesus Wherever You Live.
Baker, 2007

Stackhouse, John G. ed. Evangelical Ecclesiology.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003.

Stetzer, Ed. Planting Missional Churches.
Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2006.

Stetzer, Ed and David Putman. Breaking the Missional Code.
Broadman & Holman, 2006.

Sutherland, Martin. “The Kingdom Made Visible: A Missional Theology of Church.”
Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought & Practice 13, no. 1 (February 2005): 2-7.

Tan, Seng-Kong. “A Trinitarian Ontology of Missions.”
International Review of Mission 93, no. 369 (April 2004): 279-296

Turnipseed, Lawrence R. “Turning to God: Missional Responses in the Changing U.S. Context.”
International Review of Mission 87, no. 347 (October 1998): 525-534.

Ulrich, Daniel W. “The Missional Audience of the Gospel of Matthew.”
Catholic Biblical Quarterly 69, no. 1 (January 2007): 64-83.

Van Engen, Charles. God’s Missionary People: Rethinking the Purpose of the Local Church.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991.

Van Engen, Charles. Mission on the Way: Issues in Mission Theology.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996.

Van Gelder, Craig. “Rethinking Denominations and Denominationalism in Light of a Missional Ecclesiology.”
Word & World 25, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 23-33.

Van Gelder, Craig. Confident Witness – Changing World: Rediscovering the Gospel in North America.
Eerdmans, 1999.

Van Gelder, Craig. The Ministry of the Missional Church: A Community Led by the Spirit.
Baker, 2007.

Van Gelder, Craig. The Missional Church in Context: Helping Congregations Develop Contextual Ministry.
Eerdmans, 2007.

Winn, Albert C. A Sense of Mission: Guidance from the Gospel of John.
Philadelphia: Westminster, 1981.

Wright, Christopher J.H. The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative.
Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2006.

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5 comments so far
  1. Tony Stiff August 23, 2007 6:32 pm

    Keeping Bosch at the top nice! I got a lot out of that text in our Theology of Mission course at Westminster Theological Seminary. Since that time I’ve been really challenge by my understanding of Christian spirituality by his “Spirituality of the Road”.

    Have you ever read Harvie M. Conn’s material on church planting or missions. Probably more than any other missiologist his work has changed the way I live and worship. My favorite’s are “Eternal Word in a Changing World” and “Evangelism: Doing Justice and Preaching Grace”. He’s got some great thoughts on urban missiology in “Urban Ministry”, “Planting and Growing Urban Churches”, and “The Face of Urban Missions”.

  2. Brad Brisco August 23, 2007 7:23 pm

    Tony, thanks for the suggestions, I added both of Conn’s books to my wish list to buy later.

  3. Ariel August 25, 2007 3:39 pm

    This is great. I need to pick up 3-4 CP titles this semester to fill out my required reading. With that in mind, what would you recommend? Start from the top?

  4. monika walter September 25, 2007 3:19 pm

    good blog

  5. Stephen Murray October 5, 2007 11:51 am

    Hey Brad have you checked out ‘Total Church’ by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester?