Readings in Missions
Bible and Mission
Bauckham, Richard. Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World.
Carlisle: Paternoster Press and Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 2003.
Pp. 126.
Goheen, Michael. A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2011. ISBN-10: 0801031419. Pp.
256. (Available on Kindle.)
Grams, Rollin. New Testament Mission Theology. In progress. [Sections available by request.]
Payne, J. D. Theology of Mission: A Concise Biblical
Theology. Bellingham, WA: Lexham
Press, 2022. Pp. 192.
Mission History
Green, Michael. Evangelism in the Early Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1970, 2003.
Neill, Stephen, and Owen Chadwick. A
History of Christian Missions. Penguin, 1991. Pp. 466.
Smither, Edward L. Christian Mission: A Concise, Global History. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2019. Pp. 202.
Terry, Mark and Robert L. Gallagher. Encountering the History of Missions: From the
Early Church to Today. Grand Rapids, MI; Baker Academic, 2017.
Pp. 362.
Theology of Mission
Bavinck, J. H. An
Introduction to the Science of Missions. P&R Publishing, 1993. See review by Andy Johnson at Book
Review: An Introduction to the Science of Missions, by John Herman Bavinck :
9Marks.
Bosch, David. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in
Theology of Mission. Maryknoll, NY:
Orbis, 2011 (orig. 1991). Pp. 658. [Cf. chapters 6-9: Eastern Church, Medieval
Roman Catholic, Protestant Reformation, Enlightenment; chapter 12: An Emerging
Ecumenical Missionary Paradigm; chapter 13: Mission in Many Modes]
Bosch, David. Witness to the World: The Christian Mission
in Theological Perspective. Eugene,
OR: Wipf & Stock, 2006.
Jones, E. Stanley. Conversion. E. Stanley Jones Foundation, 2018 (orig.
Abingdon, 1959).
Stott, John M. and Christopher J. H. Wright. Christian Mission in the Modern World. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2015.ISBN: Read pp. 15-218 = 204 pages.
Van Engen, Charles. Transforming Mission Theology. William Carey Library, 2017. ISBN 10: 0878086358. ISBN-13: 978-0878086351. (Available on Kindle Books.) 436 pages.
Wright, Christopher J. H. The Great Story and the Great Commission. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023.
Mission Practice and
Context
Lovelace, Richard. Dynamics of Spiritual Life. Expanded ed.
Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2020.
Muck, Terry and Frances S. Adeney. Encountering
World Religions: The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-First Century. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009.
Murray, Stuart. Post-Christendom: Church and Mission in a
Strange New World (After-Christendom).
Carlisle, UK: Paternoster, 2004. ISBN: 978-1842272619.
Pp. 208. (Available as a Kindle book.)
Newbigin, Lesslie. The Gospel in a Puralistic Society
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989). Pp.
252.
Niebauer, Michael. Virtuous Persuasion: A Theology of Christian
Mission. Lexham Academic, 2022.
Shaw, Ryan. Rethinking Global Mobilization: Calling the
Church to Her Core Identity.
Armstrong, MO: Ignite Media, 2022.
Biographies
Donovan, Vincent J. Christianity Rediscovered. 25th ed.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2003.
Grams, Rollin G. Stewards
of Grace: A Reflective, Mission Biography of Eugene and Phyllis Grams in South
Africa, 1951-1962 (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010). Pp. 222.
(Available on Kindle.)
Long, Kathryn T. God
in the Rainforest: A Tale of Martyrdom and Redemption in Amazonian Ecuador. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Tucker, Ruth A. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical
History of Christian Missions. Grand
Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004. Pp. 528.
The Church’s Mission
and Other Religions
Bavinck, J. H. The
Church between Temple and Mosque.
Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Seminary Press, 2023.
Sookhdeo, Patrick. A Christian’s Pocket Guide to Islam. Rev. ed. Christian
Focus, 2013. ISBN: 978-1845505721. Pp. 144.
Tennent, Timothy. Christianity at the Religious Roundtable:
Evangelicalism in Conversation with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2002. Pp. 245.
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