Theological Book List
Below are books and authors that have helped shape and challenge our theological understanding of what it means to be the Church in the world.
A Peculiar People: the Church as Culture In A Post-Christian Society
Rodney Clapp, Downers Grove, IL InterVarsity Press, 1996.
Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World
Robert E. Webber, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1999.
Bringing The Church To The World: Renewing the Church to Confront the Paganism Entrenched in Western Culture
Tom Wright, Minneapolis, MI: Bethany House, 1992.
Church: Why Bother?
Philip Yancey, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998.
The Company of the Committed
Elton Trueblood, New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1980.
Confident Witness – Changing World: Rediscovering the Gospel in North America
Craig Van Gelder, ed., Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999.
The Continuing Conversion of the Church
Darrell L. Guder, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2000.
Families at the Crossroads: Beyond Traditional and Modern Options
Rodney Clapp, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993.
The Isaiah Vision: An Ecumenical Strategy for Congregational Evanagelism
Raymond Fung, Geneva, Switzerland: WCC Publications 1992.
Joy To The World: Spreading the Good News of the Kingdom
Robert T. Henderson, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1980.
The Kingdom of God
John Bright, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1981.
Life On The Vine: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit in Christian Community
Philip D. Kenneson, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1998.
The Local Church, Agent of Transformation: An Ecclesiology for Integral Mission
Tetsunao Yamamori & C. René Padilla, eds., Buenos Aires: Kairos Ediciones, 2004.
Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America
Darrell L. Guder, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998.
The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission
Lesslie Newbigin, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995.
People of the Truth
Robert E. Webber & Rodney Clapp, Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse, 1993.
Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
Stanley Hauerwas & William H. Willimon. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989.
Theology of Hope
Jürgen Moltmann, Minneapolis, MI: Fortress Press 1993.
Where Resident Aliens Live
Stanley Hauerwas & William H. Willimon. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.
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