Bibliography: Way-markers on my Journey toward a missional understanding of church and church planting.

Paul writes - Inspired by Andrew Jones (a.k.a TallskinnyKiwi) and Kevin Cawley (see here), I thought I’d extract what follows from some writing I’ve been doing for a couple of months. There’s some great ideas for last minute Christmas or New Year shopping.

Key texts that have shaped my thinking (With the emphasis on “key,” this is not a comprehensive list and certainly not in any particular order – just as they came off my shelves):

• Thomson, John B, Church on Edge? Darton Longman & Todd, 2004.
• Kester Brewin, The Complex Christ, SPCK,
• Andrews, Dave, Christi-Anarchy: Discovering a Radical Spirituality of Compassion, Lion Publishing, 1999.
• Andrews, Dave, Not Religion, But Love: Practicing a Radical Spirituality of Compassion, Lion Publishing: 2001.
• Sugden, Chris, and Samuel, Vinay, Mission as Transformation: A Theology of the Whole Gospel, Paternoster Press, 2000.
• Bosch, David, Transforming Mission, Orbis Books, 1991.
• Nussbaum, Stan, A Readers Guide to Transforming Mission, Orbis Books, 2005 (a invaluable little book that distils and makes easy to read the contents of Bosch’s very dense book, noted above).
• Taylor, Steve, A New Way of Being Church: A Case Study Approach to Cityside Baptist Church as Christian Faith “Making Do” in a Postmodern World, unpublished thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, July 31, 2004.
• Taylor, Steve, The Out of Bounds Church? Learning to Create a Community of Faith in a Culture of Change, Zondervan / Youth Specialities, 2005.
• Riddell, Mike, Mark Pierson, and Cathy Kirkpatrick, The Prodigal Project: Journey into the Emerging Church, SPCK, 2000.
• Riddell, Mike, Threshold of the Future: Reforming Church in the Post-Christian West, SPCK, 1998.
• Jamieson, Alan, A Churchless Faith: Faith Journeys Beyond Evangelical, Pentecostal & Charismatic Churches, Philip Garside Publishing Ltd, 2000.
• Jamieson, Alan, Called Again: In and Beyond the Deserts of Faith, Philip Garside Publishing Ltd, 2004.
• Jamieson, Alan, Various Articles which can be found, linked to via his joint-venture blogsite http://prodigalkiwi.typepad.com

• Moynagh, Michael, Changing World, Changing Church, Monarch Books, 2001.
• Moynagh, Michael, Emergingchurch.intro, Monarch Books, 2004.
• Murray, Stuart, Church Planting: Laying Foundations, Herald Press, 2001.
• Murray, Stuart, Post-Christendom: Church and Mission in a Strange New World, Paternoster, 2004
• Croft, Steven, Transforming Communities: Re-imagining the Church for the 21^st Century, Darton, Longman & Todd, 2002.
• Gornik, Mark R, To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.
• Mission-Shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh Expressions of Church in a Changing Context, A Report from a Working Group of the Church of England’s Mission and Public Affairs Council, Church House Publishing, 2004.
• Finney, John, Fading Splendour? A New Model of Renewal, Darton, Longman & Todd, 2000.
• Myers, Joseph R, The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups, Zondervan / Youth Specialities, 2003.
• Webber, Robert E, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World, Baker Books, 1999.
• Regele, Mike (with Mark Schulz), Death of the Church: The Church has a Choice: To Die as a Result of It’s Resistance to Change or to die in Order to Live, Zondervan Publishing House, 1995.
• Frost, Mike & Hirsch, Alan, The Shaping of Things to Come, Hendrickson Publishers Inc, 2003. 
• Shanks, Norman, Iona: God’s Energy: The Spirituality and Vision of the Iona Community, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1999.
• Drane, John, McDonaldization of the Church: Spirituality, Creativity, and the Future of the Church, Darton, Longman & Todd, 2000.
• Drane, John, Do Christians Know How to be Spiritual? The Rise of the New Spirituality and the Mission of the Church, Darton, Longman & Todd, 2005.
• Hunsberger, George R (Editor), The Church Between Gospel and Culture, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996.
• Guder, Darrell L (Editor), Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998 (especially Alan Roxburgh’s and Darrell Guder’s essays).
• Brownson, James V et al, StormFront: The Good News of God, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003.
• Barrett, Lois Y, Treasure in Clay Jars: Patterns in Missional Faithfulness, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004.
• The Rutba House (editors), School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism, Cascade Books, 2005.
• Hammond, Mary Tuomi, The Church and the Dechurched: Mending a Damaged Faith, Chalice Press, 2001.
• Simson, Wolfgang, Houses that Change the World, Authentic Lifestyle, 2001.
• Gibbs, Eddie (& Bolger, Ryan K.), Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures, Baker Academic, 2005.
• Ward, Kevin, Various Articles including Believing without Belonging: Church in the Aftermath of the 60s, Rugbyand Church: Worlds in Conflict? Christendom, Clericalism, Church and Context: Finding Categories of Connexion in a Culture without Christian Memory. Implications of New Zealand Research; Religion in a Post-Aquarian Age: The Tide is Running Out; Rethinking Church for New Zealand; and Is New Zealand’s Future Churchless?
• Sudsworth, Richard J, The Outside-In Church, 2003. A research paper commissioned by the Church Mission Society.
• Cowdell, Scott, God’s next Big Thing: Discovering the Future Church, John Garratt Publishing, 2004.
• Newbigin, Lesslie, The Open Secret, SPCK, 1995.
• Newbigin, Lesslie, Foolishness to the Greeks, Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1986.
• Newbigin, Lesslie, The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society, SPCK, 1989.

Comments

[Jamie Arpin-Ricci]

Excellent list. Thanks!

Peace,
Jamie Arpin-Ricci
www.emergentvoyageurs.blog.com