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Topic 16: Reformed Doctrine of Mission
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Topic 16: Reformed Doctrine of Mission
Centers on Barth’s three great sections in CD IV on the gathering, upbuilding, and sending of the Christian community (CD IV/1, IV/2, IV/3) as the theological foundation for mission. Historical balance is provided by Hans-Werner Gensichen on the Reformers and mission and Lesslie Newbigin’s The Open Secret, one of the most important missiology texts of the twentieth century.
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16. REFORMED DOCTRINE OF MISSION
Seminar Readings
Barth, Karl. “The Holy Spirit and the Gathering of the Christian Community.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, vol. IV, The Doctrine of Reconciliation, translated by G. W. Bromiley, pt. 1, sec. 62, pp. 643–739. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1956. 97 pp.
——— “The Holy Spirit and the Upbuilding of the Christian Community.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, vol. IV, The Doctrine of Reconciliation, translated by G. W. Bromiley, pt. 2, sec. 67, pp. 614–726. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1958. 113 pp.
——— “The Holy Spirit and the Sending of the Christian Community.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, vol. IV, The Doctrine of Reconciliation, translated by G. W. Bromiley, pt. 3, second half, sec. 72, pp. 681–901. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1961. 221 pp.
Gensichen, D. H.-W. “Were the Reformers Indifferent to Mission?”, in The Student World, Vol. 53:1–2, no. 207–208. (Geneva: World’s Student Christian Federation, 1960), pp. 119–127.
Newbigin, Lesslie. The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1978. Revised edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995. viii + 192 pp.
Leith, John H. “The Christian Witness in the World.” In From Generation to Generation: The Renewal of the Church According to Its Own Faith and Practice, Chapter 6, pp. 162–176. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1990.
Bosch, David Jacobus. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1991. Twentieth anniversary edition, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2011. xxv + 630 pp.
Flett, John G. The Witness of God: The Trinity, Missio Dei, Karl Barth, and the Nature of Christian Community. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010. xv + 328 pp.
Sunquist, Scott W. Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glory. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013. xiv + 448 pp.
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Supplementary Reading
Bassham, Rodger C. “A Theological Analysis of Developments and Tensions in Mission Theology.” In Mission Theology, 1948–1975: Years of Worldwide Creative Tension— Ecumenical, Evangelical and Roman Catholic, Part IV, pp. 329–367. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1979. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2002.
Blauw, Johannes. The Missionary Nature of the Church: A Survey of the Biblical Theology of Mission. New York: McGraw Hill, 1962. 182 pp.
Brown, G[eorge] Thompson. Presbyterians in World Mission. Revised edition. Decatur, GA: C. T. S. Press, 1995. xi + 147 pp. General survey of P.C.(U.S.A.) missions.
Conner, Benjamin T. Practicing Witness: A Missional Vision of Christian Practices. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011. v + 129 pp.
Glasser, Arthur F. and D. A. McGavran. Contemporary Theologies of Mission. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1983. 251 pp. Comparison with other theologies.
Guder, Darrell L. The Continuing Conversion of the Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000. xvi + 221 pp.
——— Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998. viii + 280 pp.
Kraemer, H[endrik]. The Christian Message in a Non-Christian World. New York: International Missionary Conference, 1938. xvi + 455 pp.
——— Why Christianity of All Religions? Translated by Hubert Hoskins. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1962. 125 pp.
Mackay, John Alexander. Ecumenics: The Science of the Church Universal. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964. ix + 204 pp. See chapters 8, 12, and 13.
Van Engen, Charles Edward. Mission on the Way: Issues in Mission Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1996. 206 pp.
Verkuyl, Johannes. Contemporary Missiology: An Introduction. Translated and edited by Dale Cooper. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1978. xiv + 414 pp.
Visser t’Hooft, Willem Adolph. No Other Name: The Choice Between Syncretism and Christian Universalism. London: SCM, 1963. 128 pp.
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FOUNDATION BIBLIOGRAPHIES Page 34 West, Charles C. Outside the Camp: The Christian and the World. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959. 168 pp. Revised April 6, 2019
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