Summer Reading in Christian Missions

 

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.