...for an MA Course I am teaching with Archie Poulos next year.
Burke, Spencer. Out of the Ooze : Unlikely Love Letters to the Church from Beyond the Pew. Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2007.
Burke, Spencer, and Colleen Pepper. Making Sense of Church : Eavesdropping on Emerging Conversations About God, Community, and Culture. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003.
Burke, Spencer, and Barry Taylor. A Heretic's Guide to Eternity. 1st ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.
Carson, D. A. Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church : Understanding a Movement and Its Implications. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2005.
DeYoung, Kevin, and Ted Kluck. Why We're Not Emergent : By Two Guys Who Should Be. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2008.
Frost, Michael, and Alan Hirsch. Rejesus : A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church. Peabody, Mass. Sydney: Hendrickson Publishers ; Strand Publishing, 2009.
Gibbs, Eddie, and Ryan K. Bolger. Emerging Churches : Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2005.
Grenz, Stanley J. Renewing the Center : Evangelical Theology in a Post-Theological Era. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 2000.
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Jones, Tony. The New Christians : Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. 1st ed, A Living Way. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Kimball, Dan. The Emerging Church : Vintage Christianity for New Generations. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2003.
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9 comments:
It is interesting that you would leave out everything by Leslie Newbigin, in my reading he is one of the more significant influences, though more of a precursor to the emerging movement. 'The Gospel in a pluralist society' and 'Foolishness to the Greeks: Gospel and Western Culture' provide some of the significant theological foundations for much of this movement.
Ah, of course - Robert Webber. I've got a soft spot for him :)
...you could also throw in one or two from Kierkegaard.
Hey Michael, a few books you missed out that you need on there. Firstly Brian Mclarnes trilogy starting with A new kind of Christianity. That book changed Rob Bell's life if you read the christianity today article Emergent Mystique. The second book you need is velvet elvis by bell maybe his other ones, Sex God and Jesus came to save Christians.
Frost & Hirsch's earlier The shaping of things to come: innovation and mission for the 21st-century church (2003)is more important than re-Jesus... it was pretty influential in North America
Rob Bell's Velvet Elvis should probably be on there as well... even though a little dated now
and any of the 3 books from John Drane, who is by far and way doing the best theological work for emerging church / fresh expressions:
After McDonaldization: Mission, Ministry and Christian Discipleship in an Age of Uncertainty (2008)
The McDonaldization of the church : spirituality, creativity, and the future of the church (2000)
Cultural change and Biblical faith : the future of the church: Biblical and missiological essays for the new century (2000)
And Barry taylor is a good mate, but his Heretics' Guide is NOT his best book... try his Entertainment Theology instead, although it is a little off topic
And I know they hate being identified with "Emerging church" but I would have thought that Chester & Timmis' Total Church deserved its place... even if to even up the USA/UK balance a little??
Michael, You may also have interest in a work I completed titled "Preaching and the Emerging Church: An Examination of Four Founding Leaders: Mark Driscoll, Dan Kimball, Brian McLaren, and Doug Pagitt." You can learn more about the book at Amazon.com.
I would add the following:
Stan Grenz, A Primer on post-modernity.
Phyllis Tyckle, the Great Emergence.
All of Peter Rollins work.
and an old one, Rolland Allen, Missionary Methods: Ours or St. Pauls.
Hi Michael,
You might consider adding Brian McLaren's "The Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix". (a Revised and Expanded Edition of Reinventing Your Church), Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000.
And for emerging church (UK)
Michael Moynagh, "emergingchurch.intro", Oxford: Monarch, 2004
I'm appreciate your writing skill.Please keep on working hard.^^
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