Summer 2010 Book List
BMIS 640 Emerging Churches in Emerging Cultures, Chris Flanders
Baker & Gay. Alternative Worship. Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Books, 2004.
Caputo, John. What Would Jesus Deconstruct? Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic,
2007.
Gibbs, Eddie & Ryan Bolger. Emerging Churches. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic,
2005.
Hendriksen, Jan-Olav. Desire, Gift, and Recognition: Christology and Postmodern
Philosophy. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009
Lyon, David. Postmodernity. 2nd Edition. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota
Press, 1999.
Smith, James. Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic,
2006.
Weber, Robert. Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches. Grand Rapids, MI:
Zondervan, 2007.
Westphal, Merold. Whose Community? Which Interpretation?: Philosophical
Hermeneutics for the Church. Baker Academic, 2009.
BIBL 682 Teaching Scripture in Contemporary Contexts, Kang-Hamilton/Hamilton
Beck, "God as Storyteller" 2008 Chalice ISBN 0827212542
Brueggemann, "The Prophetic Imagination" 2nd edition 2001 Fortress ISBN
0800632877
Hodgson, "God's Wisdom" 1999 Westminster ISBN 0664257186
Moore, "Teaching from the Heart" 1998 Trinity 15633892539
Osmer, "Teaching Ministry of Congregations" 2005 Westminster 0664225470
BGRK 628 Seminar in NT Textual Criticism
Required
Barbara and Kurt Aland, eds. Novum Testamentum Graece. 27th ed., 8th corrected
reprint. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2006. 1598561723
David Black, ed. Rethinking New Testament Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: Baker
Academic, 2002. 0-8010-2280-0
Bart D. Ehrman. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture. The Effect of Early
Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. Repr. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996.
Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes. The Text of the New Testament in
Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1995. 0802848249
Larry W. Hurtado. The Earliest Christian Artifacts. Manuscripts and Christian Origins.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006. 0802828957
Bruce M. Metzger. A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. 2d Revised
edition. United Bible Societies, 2005. 1598561642
D.C. Parker. An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts.
Cambridge: University Press, 2008. 0521719895
Recommended
E. J. Epp and G. D. Fee. Studies in the Theory and Method of New Testament Textual
Criticism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993. 080282773X
Bruce M. Metzger and Bart D. Ehrman. The Text of the New Testament. Its Transmission,
Corruption, and Restoration. 4th edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
0195072979
BIBH 652 History of Christianity II
Required
Justo L. González, The Story of Christianity, vol. 2 (San Francisco: Harper and Row,
1985; reprint, 2 vols. in 1, Peabody: Prince Press, 2009). repr.: 978-1-56563-522-7
Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson, Twentieth-century Theology: God and the World in
a Transitional Age (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 1992). 0-85364-590-6
Denis R. Janz, ed., A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, 2nd ed.
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008). 978-0-8006-6310-0
John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, abridged and ed. I. T. Ramsey
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1958). 0-8047-0341-8
Recommended
E. A. Livingstone, ed., The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 2nd ed.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). 978-0-19-861442-5
BIBM 640 Preaching Luke (Croatia)
Joel Green, The Gospel of Luke (New International Commentary of the New Testament)
Eerdmans, 1997
Keith Nickle, Preaching Luke, Westminster John Knox, 2000
Tom Long, The Witness of Preaching (2nd edition) Westminster John Knox, 2005
Robert Reid, The Four Voices of Preaching, Brazos Press, 2006
Barbara Brown Taylor, The Preaching Life, Cowley Publications, 1993
BIBL 640 New Testament Ethics
Warren Carter, What are they Saying about the Sermon on the Mount? (Paulist, 1989)
Victor P. Furnish, The Moral Teaching of Paul, rev. ed. (Nashville: Abingdon, 2009)
Richard Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament (San Francisco: Harper, 1996)
BIBM 644 Pastoral Ministry Skills
Bridges, William, Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes. Revised 25th
Anniversary Edition. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2004.
Gerkin, Charles V., An Introduction to Pastoral Care. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997.
Nouwen, Henri J. M., The Wounded Healer. New York: The Seabury Press, 1979.
Savage, John, Listening & Caring Skills in Ministry. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996.
Smedes, Lewis B. Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don’t Deserve. New York:
Pocket Books, 1996.
Stone, Howard W. Crisis Counseling. 3rd edition. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009.
Thompson, James. Pastoral Ministry According to Paul: A Biblical Vision. Grand
Rapids: Baker Academic Books, 2006.
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