Andy Rowell

Author: Andy Rowell

  • Recommended Academic Treatments on the Emerging Church movement

    Carson, D.A. Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and Its Implications. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.

    Gibbs, Eddie and Ryan K. Bolger. Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures. Baker Academic, 2005.

    McLaren, Brian D. A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished CHRISTIAN. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004.

    Webber, Robert E. The Younger Evangelicals: Facing the Challenges of the New World. Baker Books, 2002.

  • Recommended Pastoral Theology Works by Academics

    Anderson, Ray S. The Shape of Practical Theology: Empowering Ministry with Theological Praxis. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2001.

    Buxton, Graham. Dancing in the Dark: The Privilege of Participating in the Ministry of Christ. Paternoster Press, 2002.

    Oden, Thomas C. Pastoral Theology: Essentials of Ministry. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1983.

    Willimon, William H. Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Ordained Ministry. Abingdon, 2002.

  • Recommended Works on Ecclesiology by Academics

    Guder, Darrell L., ed. Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

    Sweet, Leonard, ed. and Andy Crouch, Michael Horton, Frederica Mathews-Green, Brian D. McLaren, and Erwin Raphael McManus. The Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives. El Cajon: emergentYS, 2003.

    Volf, Miroslav. After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.