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WM760: Readings in Missions

Professor: Rollin G. Grams (rgrams@gordonconwell.edu)

Semester: Fall, 2016

General Comment:

This independent study, reading course is offered by different professors in different ways. In its broadest

framework, it can help to expose students to thinking and reading on mission topics in several areas: the

Bible and missions, the history of missions, theology and missions, missions and the local church, missions

and parachurch) organizations (denominations and mission agencies, missions and world religions,

mission to a particular context, and the practice of missions.

Description:

This Fall, 2016 version of the course covers reading in the Bible and mission, the history of mission, the

theology of mission, and the context and practice of mission. Students are given some freedom in what

they read in order to fit their academic and practical interests.

Relation to Curriculum

WM760 counts towards the elective requirements in Christian Thought for the M.Div. and MA degrees.

Objectives

The present course is intended to give students a sweeping overview of these general areas rather than

focus on any particular one of them. Overall, a focus on the role Scripture plays in missions draws the

reading together, although the reading covers more than this single topic. The bulk of time spent on this

course is with the reading, along with some direction/discussion of the reading through tutorials.

Students will read about 3,000 words, keep notes on the reading, and engage the reading. They will also

meet for six hours with the professor in person, by Skype (depending on the location of the professor and

students and class size), and/or by e-mail contact.

Course Requirements

The course goals are to cover the breadth of mission topics and to read about 3,000 words. In a field such

as missions, reading can be theoretical or pragmatic, historical or contemporary, theological or pastoral,

academic or inspirational. Students will read within certain mission categories and issues that are

presented in the following bibliography. All reading on the course must be fresh material to the student:

do not count reading completed prior to this course.

One further note about the reading, which is mostly a collection of academic resources on mission topics.

While in a seminary course the reading may be more on the academic side, students are asked to read

one mission biography in the mix—and so approach the academic issues from a narrative, contextual, and

inspirational direction. The student may choose any mission biography from the list or suggest an

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alternative, with a high level of quality being a particular concern in the choice. The mission biographies

are listed in the section of the bibliography titled ‘Mission Context and Practice.’

1. Class Meeting:

This course is set up as a directed study, but it may involve any number of students. Our goal is to

have a total of 6 hours class interaction with the professor during the semester. Given the

uncertainty about enrollment, different approaches might be taken to class meeting times and

places. It is possible that we will meet as a group on campus during the semester (most likely in

November) or by Skype individually. E-mail correspondence is an alternative way to meet as well.

Once enrollment in the course is clear, we will discuss ways to meet during the semester. This is a

requirement of the course.

2. Reading:

a. Students will read 3,000 pages on this course. See the Bibliography to choose additional reading

to that which is required.

b. The reading proceeds in a specific order:

i. Build a Biblical perspective on missions by reading at least 696 pages:

Köstenberger, A. J., and P. T. O’Brien. Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of

Mission. Read pp. 19-274 = 258 pages.

Schnabel, E. J. Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies and Methods. Downers Grove, IL: IVP,

2008. Read pp. 21-458 = 438 pages.

ii. Build an historical perspective on missions by reading at least 466 pages:

Neill, Stephen, and Owen Chadwick. A History of Christian Missions. Read pp. 13-478 = 466

pages.

iii. Build a theological perspective on missions by reading at least 204 pages:

Stott, John M. and Christopher J. H. Wright. Christian Mission in the Modern World. Read pp. 15-

218 = 204 pages.

iv. Build a perspective on context and practice of mission by reading at least 400 pages of

your choice from ‘Context and Practice of Missions’ in the Bibliography and a biography

(about 200 pages, typically) of your choice that offers material for discussing the

theology and practice of missions.

1. A work on the context and practice of mission

2. A mission biography

v. Complete your reading of 3,000 pages from the bibliography (or approved substitute)

according to your interest.

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c. Assignments and Marking:

a. Reading: This is worth 50% of the final grade

i. Keep a reading log on works read (author, title, pages read)

ii. Keep notes on the reading by writing Take-Away Points and/or Outlines of Reading

iii. Give yourself a self-grade for each book read according to the following rubric. List

author and grade in a simple table in an e-mail.

Grade Level of Reading

A Careful reading and engagement with the text. Good notes taken for future use. (Possibly additional reading done in the book or on the subject.)

B Careful reading and engagement with the text. Underlining of books and occasional notes taken.

C Complete reading of the text. Very little skimming. Some engagement, a little underlining, no notes.

D Complete reading of the text. Some sections skimmed. Inadequate engagement and underlining.

F Incomplete reading of the text.

Turn in the self-grading for reading on this course by 7 December, 2016.

d. Written Assignment:

1. There is one written assignment for this course. It is worth 50% of the final grade.

2. The paper should be about 25 pages, double-spaced, 12 point font. It should follow Turabian (or

APA format for counseling students only). Research for the paper should come from the 3,000

pages of reading for the course.

3. The paper should indicate your own careful reading in this course, and so it should interact with

the reading as much as possible. No additional research is necessary (this is a reading course,

not a research course).

4. The paper should cover the following topics:

a. How does Scripture invite readers to read it from a missional perspective?

b. How does the history of missions show a reliance on or rejection of Biblical missions?

c. How do theologies of mission—or how does a particular theology of mission--engage

Scripture, and what other factors contribute to various theologies of mission?

d. In what ways should the practice of mission reflect Biblical authority and guidance?

5. The paper is due on the 14th of December, 2016.

e. Grading:

1. For the meaning of grades, see the seminary catalogue.

2. 50% of the final grade has to do with the reading. The student’s self-grade is taken into

consideration, together with the supporting materials of notes and take-away points.

3. 50% of the final grade comes from the final 25 page paper. The paper should demonstrate:

a. Careful reading on the course

b. Interaction with Scripture

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c. Good descriptions of any author’s comments or arguments (clear, concise,

complete)

d. Good analysis and critique of material read

e. Some independent thinking, especially based on Scripture, history, theology, and

any personal experience in cross-cultural mission work

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Bibliography

This bibliography is arranged in four broad sections (see Roman numberals). Students will be reading

both required and selected reading from each section.

I. The Bible and Missions

Bauckham, Richard. Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World. Carlisle: Paternoster Press and

Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 2003.

Grams, Rollin G., I. Howard Marshall, Peter Penner, Robin Routledge, eds. Bible and Mission. Schwarzenfeld:

Neufeld Verlag, 2008.

Köstenberger, A. J., and P. T. O’Brien. Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission. Downers

Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2001 (ISBN 0-8308-2611-4).

Bowers, W. Paul. ‘Mission.’ In Dictionary of Paul and his Letters. Eds. G. F. Hawthorne, R. P. Martin, D. G. Reid.

Downers Grove, Leicester: IVP, 1993. Pp. 608-619.

II. The History of Missions

Primary Sources

Herodotus, The Histories (available at:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126)

Strabo, Geography (available at: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0198)

Judaism

McKnight, Scott, ed. A Light among the Gentiles: Jewish Missionary Activity in the Second Temple Period.

Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991. [I. H. Marshall responds to the Bowers-O’Brien discussion in ‘Who Were the

Evangelists?’, 251-63: ‘the wider perspective of the Gospels and Acts supports a broader understanding of mission

as a responsibility for all members of the church’.]

The Old Testament and Mission

Martin-Achard, R. A Light to the Nations: a Study of the Old Testament Concept of Israel's Mission to

the World. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962.

Blenkinsopp, J. 'Second Isaiah--Prophet of Universalism.' JSOT 41 (1988): 83-103.

Gelston, A. 'The Missionary Message of Second Isaiah.' SJT 18 (1965): 308-318.

Gottwold, N. K. All the Kingdoms of the Earth. New York: Harper and Row, 1964.

Halas, H. 'The Universalism of Isaiah.' CBQ 12 (1950): 162-170.

Hollenberg, D. E. 'Nationalism and the nations in Isaiah XL-LV.' VT 19 (1969): 23-36.

Kaiser, Walter C. Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nations. Grand Rapids:

Baker. 2000.

Legrand, L. Unity and Plurality: Mission in the Bible. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1990; French original, 1988).

Martin-Achard, R. A Light to the Nations: a Study of the Old Testament Concept of Israel's Mission to

the World. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962.

Rowley, H. H. The Missionary Message of the Old Testament. London: Carey, 1955.

Scheurer, E. Altes Testament und Mission: Zur Begründung des Missionsauftrages. TVG

Monographien und Studienbücher. Giessen: Brunnen, 1996.

Scobie, Charles H. H. 'Israel and the Nations: An Essay in Biblical Theology.' Tyndale Bulletin 43.2

(1992): 283-305.

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Wright,Christopher J. H. The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative. Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP

Academic, 2006.

The New Testament and Mission

Grams, Rollin G. According to the Gospel. Unpublished, 2016.

Grams, Rollin G. Gospel and Mission in Paul’s Ethics. Ph.D. Dissertation, Duke University, 1989.

Hahn, F. Mission in neutestamentlicher Sicht: Aufsätze, Vorträge und Predigten. Missionswissenschaftliche

Forschungen. NF 8. Erlangen: Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene, 1999.

Hahn, Ferdinand. Mission in the New Testament. London: SCM, 1965

Hahn, F. Das Verständnis der Mission im Neuen Testament.

Nissen, J. New Testament and Mission: Historical and Hermeneutical Perspectives. Frankfurt am

Main, Berlin, Bern: P. Lang, 1999; Danish original, 1996.

Jesus and Mission

Jesus and the Gospels

Grams, Rollin. The Mission of Jesus and His Disciples: Studies in the Gospels. Unpublished, 2016.

Schnabel, E. J. ‘Jesus and the Beginnings of the Mission to the Gentiles.’ In Jesus of Nazareth: Lord

and Christ: Essays on the Historical Jesus and New Testament Christology. Eds. J. B. Green, M. Turner. FS

I. H. Marshall. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Carlisle: Paternoster, 1994. Pp. 37-58.

Schnabel, Eckhard. Early Christian Mission, Vol. 1: Jesus and the Twelve. Downers Grove, IL: Apollos, 2004.

Schnabel, E. J. ‘Jesus and the Beginnings of the Mission to the Gentiles.’ In Jesus of Nazareth: Lord and

Christ: Essays on the Historical Jesus and New Testament Christology. Eds. J. B. Green, M. Turner. FS I. H.

Marshall. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Carlisle: Paternoster, 1994. Pp. 37-58.

Wilk, F. Jesus und die Völker in der Sicht der Synoptiker. BZNW 109. Berlin, New York: W. de

Gruyter, 2002. [Regarding his study of Matthew’s Gospel, pp. 83-153, Wilk says that, ‘only as Jesus is

Christ for Israel is he also ‘Lord’ for the nations’ (146, my translation).]

Mark

Kato, Z. Die Völkermission im Markusevangelium: Eine redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung.

EHS 23.252. Frankfurt: P. Lang; Bern: H. Lang, 1986.

Svartik, Jesper. Mark and Mission: Mk 7:1-23 in its Narrative and Historical Contexts. CB.NT 32. Stockholm:

Almqvist & Wiksell, 2000.

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Tuckett, Christopher M. Q and the History of Early Christianity: Studies on Q. Peabody / Edinburgh: Hendrickson /

T. & T. Clark, 1996.

Uro, Risto. Sheep among the Wolves: A Study on the Mission Instructions of Q. AASF.DHL 47. Helsinki: Suomalainen

Tiedeakatemia, 1987.

Matthew

Brown, S. ‘The Matthean Community and the Gentile Mission.’ NT 22 (1980): 193-221.

Grams, Rollin G. 'Narrative Dynamics in Isaiah's and Matthew's Mission Theology.' Transformation

21.4 (Oct., 2004): 238-255.

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Konradt, Konradt. Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew. Baylor: Baylor University Press, 2014.

LaGrand, J. The Earliest Christian Mission to ‘All Nations’ in the Light of Matthew’s Gospel. Grand

Rapids, Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 1999.

Lange, J. Das Erscheinen des Auferstandenen im Evangelium nach Matthäus: Eine traditions- un

redaktionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zu Mt. 28.16-20. FzB 11. Würzburg: Echter, 1973.

Park, E. C. The Mission Discourse in Matthew’s Interpretation. WUNT II.81. Tübingen: Mohr

Siebeck, 1995.

Weaver, D. J. Matthew’s Missionary Discourse: A Literary Critical Analysis. JSNT.SS 38. Sheffield:

SAP, 1990.

Luke

Dollar, Harold. St. Luke’s Missiology: A Cross-Cultural Challenge. Pasadena: William Carey Library,

1996.

Lane, Thomas J. Luke and the Gentile Mission: Gospel Anticipates Acts. EHS 23.571. Frankfurt: P. Lang,

1996.

Penney, John M. The Missionary Emphasis of Lukan Pneumatology. JPTSup 12. Sheffield: Academic Press,

1996.

John

Köstenberger, A. J. The Missions of Jesus and the Disciples According to the Fourth Gospel: With

Implications for the Fourth Gospel’s Purpose and the Mission of the Contemporary Church. Grand Rapids:

Eerdmans, 1998.

Okure, T. The Johannine Approach to Mission: A Contextual Study of John 4.1-42. WUNT II.31.

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1988.

Early Church and Acts

Gill, David W. J., and C. Gempf, ed. The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting. The Book of Acts in Its First-

Century Setting. Vol. 2. Exeter: Paternoster, 1994

Marshall, I. Howard, and David Peterson, eds. Witness to the Gospel: The Theology of Acts. Grand Rapids:

Eerdmans, 1998 (ISBN 0-80284-435-9)

Matson, David Lertis. Household Conversion Narratives in Acts. Pattern and Interpretation. JSNTSup 123. Sheffield:

Sheffield Academic Press, 1996

Pao, David. Acts and the Isaianic New Exodus. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2002.

Schnabel, E. J. ‘Mission, Early non-Pauline.’ In Dictionary of New Testament Background. Eds. C. A. Evans, S. E.

Porter. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2000. Pp. 752-775.

Wilson, S. G. The Gentiles and the Gentile Mission in Luke-Acts. SNTSMS 23. Cambridge: CUP, 1973.

Paul and Mission

Alvarez-Cineira, D. Die Religionspolitik des Kaisers Claudius und die paulinische Mission. Herders

Biblische Studien 19. Freiburg, Basel, Wien: Herder, 1999.

Barnett, Paul W. Paul: Missionary of Jesus. After Jesus. Volume 2. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008.

Bolt, P. G. and M. Thompson. The Gospel to the Nations: Perspectives on Paul’s Mission. Leicester:

IVP, 2000.

Bowers, W. Paul. ‘Studies in Paul's Understanding of His Mission.’ Ph.D. Dissertation. Cambridge, 1976.

Vom Brock, C. Thessaloniki—Stadt des Kassander und Gemeinde des Paulus: Eine frühe christliche

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Gemeinde in ihrer heidnischen Umwelt. WUNT II, 125. Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck 2001. [Review in EJTH

11, 2002, 53-56.]

Burke, Trevor J. and Brian S. Rosner, eds. Paul as Missionary: Identity, Activity, Theology, and Practice. Library of

New Testament Studies 240; London: T. & T. Clark, 2011. [See review:

http://thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/review/paul_as_missionary_identity_activity_theology_and_pra

ctice]

1. Seyoon Kim, ‘Paul as an Eschatological Herald’

2. James W. Thompson, ‘Paul as a Missionary Pastor’

3. James C. Miller, ‘Paul and His Ethnicity’

4. Richard J. Gibson, ‘Paul the Missionary, in Priestly Service of the Servant-Christ (Rom. 15.16)’

5. Beverly Roberts Gaventa, ‘The Mission of God in Paul’s Letter to the Romans’

6. J. Daniel Hays, ‘Paul and the Multi-Ethnic First Century World’

7. J. Ayodeji Adewuya, ‘The Sacrificial-Missiological Function of Paul’s Sufferings in the Context of

2 Corinthians

8. Paul W. Barnett, ‘Was Paul’s Grace-Based Gospel True to Jesus?’

9. Arland J. Hultgren, ‘Paul’s Christology and His Mission to the Gentiles’

10. Karl Olav Sandnes, ‘A Missionary Strategy in 1 Corinthians 9.19-23’

11. Trevor J. Burke, ‘The Holy Spirit as the Controlling Dynamic in Paul’s Role as Missionary to the

Thessalonians’

12. Brian S. Rosner, ‘The Glory of God in Paul’s Missionary Theology and Practice’

13. Stanley E. Porter, ‘Reconciliation as the Heart of Paul’s Missionary Theology’

14. Roy E. Ciampa, ‘Paul’s Theology of the Gospel’

15. William S. Campbell, ‘Universality and Particularity in Paul’s Understanding and Strategy of

Mission’

16. James Ware, ‘The Word of Life’

17. Steve Walton, ‘Paul, Patronage, and Pay’

18. Michael Barram, ‘Pauline Mission as Salvific Intentionality’

19. E. Randolph Richards, ‘(Mis)Reading Paul Through Western Eyes’

Goulder, Michael D. Paul and the Competing Mission in Corinth. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2001.

Grams, Rollin G. ‘Gospel and Mission in Paul’s Ethics.’ Ph.D. Dissertation: Duke University, 1989.

Grams, Rollin G. ‘Paul among the Mission Theologians.’ Missionalia (3, 2006).

Keown, Mark J. Congregational Evangelism in Philippians: The Centrality of an Appeal for Gospel Proclamation to

the Fabric of Philippians. Paternoster Biblical Monographs. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2008

Lietaert Peerbolte, Lambertus J. Paul the Missionary. Leuven: Peeters, 2003.

O’Brien, P. T. Gospel and Mission in the Writings of Paul: An Exegetical and Theological Analysis.

Grand Rapids: Baker; Carlisle: Paternoster, 1995.

Ollrog, W.-H. Paulus und seine Mitarbeiter: Untersuchungen zu Theorie und Praxis der paulinischen

Mission. WMANT 50. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1979.

Plummer, Robert L. Paul’s Understanding of the Church’s Mission. Paternoster Biblical Monographs. Bletchley:

Paternoster, 2006.

Riesner, Rainer. Paul's Early Period: Chronology, Mission Strategy, Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

Scott, J. M., ed. Paul and the Nations: The Old Testament and Jewish Background of Paul's Mission to

the Nations with Special Reference to the Destination of Galatians. WUNT 84. Tübingen: Mohr [Siebeck]

1995.

Schnabel, Eckhard. Early Christian Mission, Vol. 2: Paul and the Early Church. InterVarsity Press, 2004.

Schnabel, E. J. Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies and Methods. Downers Grove, IL: IVP,

2008.

Strelan, Richard E. Paul, Artemis and Jews in Ephesus. BZNW 80. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996.

Wilk, F. Die Bedeutung des Jesajabuches für Paulus. FRLANT 179. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck &

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Ruprecht, 1998.

Biblical Theology and Theology of Mission

Bosch, David. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission. American Society of

Missiology Series 16. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2001.

Flemming, Dean E. Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission. Downers Grove:

InterVarsity Press, 2005.

Flemming, Dean. Recovering the Full Mission of God: A Biblical Perspective on Being, Doing, and Telling. Grand

Rapids: IVP Academic, 2013.

Freyne, Seán. The Jesus Movement and Its Expansion: Meaning and Mission. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014.

Goheen, Michael. A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story. Grand

Rapids, MI: Baker, 2011. ISBN-10: 0801031419.

Goheen, Michael. Reading the Bible Missionally. GOCS. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016.

Grams, Rollin. The Gospel of Transforming Grace.

Hahn, F. Das Verständnis der Mission im Neuen Testament.

Kirk, J. Andrew. The Mission of Theology and the Theology of Mission. Trinity Press, 1996.

Kirk, J. Andrew. What is Mission? Theoretical Explorations. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2000.

Kok, Jacobus, Tobias Nicklas, Dieter T. Roth, and Christopher M. Hays, eds. Sensitivity Towards Outsiders: Exploring

the Dynamic Relationship Between Mission and Ethics in the New Testament and Early Christianity. WUNT

2.364. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.

Köstenberger, Andreas J. ‘The Place of Mission in New Testament Theology: An Attempt to

Determine the Significance of Mission within the Scope of the New Testament’s Message as a Whole.’

Missiology XXVII.3 (July 1999): 347-362.

Laansma, John C., G. R. Osborne, and R. Van Neste, eds. New Testament Theology in Light of the Church’s Mission.

FS I. H. Marshall. Milton Keynes / Eugene, OR: Paternoster / Cascade, 2011

Larkin, W. J. and J. F. Williams, eds. Mission in the New Testament: An Evangelical Approach.

American Society of Missiology Series 27. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1998. [articles on mission in Mt., Paul, etc.]

Legrand, Lucien. Unity and Plurality. Mission in the Bible. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1990.

Nissen, J. New Testament and Mission: Historical and Hermeneutical Perspectives. Frankfurt am

Main, Berlin, Bern: P. Lang, 1999; Danish original, 1996.

Ott, Craig and Strauss, Stephen J., with Timothy Tennent. Encountering Theology of Mission: Biblical Foundations,

Historical Developments, and Contemporary Issues. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2010.

Pak, J. Yeong-Sik. Paul as Missionary: A Comparative Study of Missionary Discourse in Paul’s

Epistles and Selected Contemporary Jewish Texts. EHS XXIII 410. Frankfurt, Bern, New York: P. Lang, 1991.

Piper, J. Let the Nations Be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993.

Schreiter, Robert. Reconciliation: Mission and Ministry in a Changing Social Order. Maryknoll, NY:

Orbis, 1992.

Senior, Donald and Carrol Stuhlmueller. The Biblical Foundations for Mission. Maryknoll: Orbis,

1983.

Stenschke, Christoph. ‘Neuere Arbeiten und Tendenzen zur Mission im Neuen Testament.’ European

Journal of Theology XI (2003): 1. Pp. 5-20.

Steyne, P. M. In Step with the God of the Nations: A Biblical Theology of Mission. Columbia: Impact

International Foundation, 1997.

Sundquist, Scott W. Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glory. Grand Rapids, MI:

Baker Academic, 2013. [Three parts: history of missions; Trinitarian theology of mission in Scripture; the

Church in mission today.]

Tennent, Timothy. Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-First Century. Grand

Rapids, MI: Kregel Pub., 2010.

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Yoder, John Howard. Theology of Mission: A Believers’ Church Perspective. Ed. Gayle Gerber Koontz and Andy

Alexis-Baker. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014.

The Church and Mission

Beale, Greg. The Temple and the Church’s Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God.

Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2004.

Goheen, Michael. Introducing Christian Mission Today: Scripture, History, and Issues. Downers Grove, IL: IVP

Academic, 2014.

Goheen, Michael and Margaret O’Gara, eds. That the World May Believe: Essays on Mission and Unity in Honour

of George Vandervelde. UPA, 2005.

Grams, Rollin. The Church and Its Mission. Unpublished, 2016.

Early Church

Adna, J. and H. Kvalbein, eds. The Mission of the Early Church to Jews and Gentiles. WUNT 127. Tübingen: Mohr

Siebeck, 2000.

Dodds, E. R. Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus

Aurelius to Constantine. Reprint: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN-13: 978-0521385992

Dunn, James D. G. Beginning from Jerusalem. Christianity in the Making II. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,

2009.

Dunn, James D. G. Neither Jew nor Greek: A Contested Identity. Christianity in the Making III. Grand

Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2015.

Dunn, James D. G. The Partings of the Ways: Between Christianity and Judaism and their Significance for

the Character of Christianity. London and Philadelphia: SCM and Trinity Press, 1991 [1996]

Green, Michael. Evangelism in the Time of the Early Church. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004.

Meyer, Ben F. The Early Christians: Their World Mission and Self-Discovery. GNS 16. Wilmington: Glazier,

1986.

Rothschild, Clare K., and Jens Schröter, eds. The Rise and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three

Centuries of the Common Era. WUNT 301. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.

Schnabel, E. J. Early Christian Mission. 2 Volumes. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2004 (ISBN 0-8303-2790-0)

Schnabel, E. J. ‘Mission, Early non-Pauline.’ In Dictionary of New Testament Background. Eds. C. A. Evans,

S. E. Porter. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2000. Pp. 752-775.

ATLASES AND MAPS

Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Map-by-Map Directory.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Tsafrir, Yoram, L. Di Segni, and J. Green. Iudaea. Palaestina. Eretz Israel in the Hellenistic, Roman and

Byzantine Periods. Maps and Gazetteer. Tabula Imperii Romani. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of

Sciences and Humanities, 1994.

Historical Overview

Harnack, Adolf von. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries. 2nd ed. New

York: Putnam, 1908.

Kane, J. Herbert. A Concise History of the Christian World Mission: A Panoramic View of Missions from

Pentecost to the Present. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1982.

Neill, Stephen, and Owen Chadwick. A History of Christian Missions. London: Penguin Books, 1986.

Shenk, Wilbert R., ed. North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Practice. Grand

Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004.

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Walls, Andrew F. The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission and Appropriation of

Faith. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2002.

Walls, Andrew F. The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of the Faith.

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996.

Yates, Timothy. Christian Mission in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996.

III. Theology and Missions

Bevans, Stephen B. Constants in Context: A Theology of Mission for Today. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004.

Burrows, William R., Mark R. Gomik, Janice A. McLean, eds. Understanding World Christianity: The Vision and

Work of Andrew F. Walls. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2011.

Kirk, Andrew J. The Church and the World: Understanding the Relevance of Mission. Paternoster, 2014.

Kirk, Andrew J. What is Mission? Some Theological Explorations. Darton, Longman, & Todd, 1999.

Newbiggin, Lesley. The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989.

Sanneh, Lamin O. Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Skreslet, Stanley H. Comprehending Mission: The Questions, Methods, Themes, Problems, and Prospects of

Missiology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012.

Samuel, Vinay K. and Chris Sugden, eds. Mission as Transformation: A Theology of the Whole Gospel. Oxford:

Regnum, 1999.

Stott, John M. and Christopher J. H. Wright. Christian Mission in the Modern World. Rev. Downers Grove, IL:

InterVarsity, 2016.

Spencer, Stephen. SCM Studyguide: Christian Mission. London: SCM, 2007.

Tennent, Timothy. Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church is Influencing the Way We

Think About and Discuss Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2007.

Van Engen, Charles. Mission on the Way: Issues in Mission Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1996.

Van Engen, Charles, Dean Gilliland, Paul Pierson, eds. Good News of the Kingdom: Mission Theology for the Third

Millennium. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 1993.

Van Engen, Charles and Jude Tiersma. God So Loved the City: Seeking a Theology for Urban Mission. Eugene, OR:

Wipf & Stock, 2009.

Van Engen, Charles. The State of Missiology Today: Global Innovations in Christian Witness. Downers Grove, IL:

InterVarsity Press, 2016.

Walls, Andrew F. and Cathy Ross. Mission in the Twenty-First Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission.

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2008.

IV. Context and Practice of Mission

Mission to the West

Grams, Rollin. Mission to the West.

Frost, Michael. The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church. Peabody, MA:

Hendrickson, 2003.

Kirk, J. Andrew and Kevin Vanhoozer. To Stake a Claim: Mission and the Western Crisis of Knowledge. New York:

Orbis Books, 1999.

Mission in Islamic Contexts

Grams, Rollin. Divergent Paths. Unpublished, 2016.

Mission to the Jews

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Adna, J. and H. Kvalbein, eds. The Mission of the Early Church to Jews and Gentiles. WUNT 127. Tübingen: Mohr

Siebeck, 2000.

Grams, Rollin. Faith Arising. Unpublished, 2016 (and in process: chapters are available).

Bock, Darrell L. and M. Glaser, eds. To the Jew First: The Case for Jewish Evangelism in Scripture

and History. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2008.

Feldman, Louis H. Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World. Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

The Practice of Missions

Bormann, Lukas, K. Del Tredici, and A. Standhartinger, eds. Religious Propaganda and Missionary Competition in

the New Testament World. FS Dieter Georgi. Leiden: Brill, 1994

Bowers, W. Paul. ‘Religious Propaganda in the First Century.’ NT 22 (1980): 317-323.

Chesnutt, Randall D. From Death to Life: A Descriptive and Comparative Study of Conversion in Joseph and

Aseneth. JSPSup 16. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Chester, Stephen J. Conversion at Corinth: Perspectives on Conversion in Paul’s Theology and the Corinthian Church.

Studies of the New Testament and Its World. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2003

Engel, James F. and William A Dyrness. Changing the Mind of Missions. Where Have We Gone Wrong? Downers

Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000.

Escobar, Samuel. A Time for Mission: The Challenge for Global Christianity. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press,

2003.

Gehring, Roger. Studie Hausgemeinde und Mission: Die Bedeutung antiker Jäuser und Hausgemeinden—von Jesus

bis Paulus. BWM 9. Giessen: Brunnen, 2000.

Goodman, M. Mission and Conversion: Proselytizing in the Religious History of the Roman Empire.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Kasdorf, H. and F. Walldorf, eds. Werdet meine Zeugen: Weltmission im Horizont von Theologie und

Geschichte. Holzgerlingen: Hänssler, 1996.

Kirk, J. Andrew. Mission under Scrutiny: Confronting Contemporary Challenges. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press,

2006.

Nock, Arthur Darby. Conversion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961.

Peace, R. V. Conversion in the New Testament: Paul and the Twelve. Grand Rapids, Cambridge, UK:

W. B. Eerdmans, 1999.

Plummer, Robert L. and J. M. Terry, eds. Paul’s Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours. Edited by . Downers

Grove: IVP Academic, 2012.

Plummer, Robert L. Paul’s Understanding of the Church’s Mission: Did the Apostle Paul Expect the Early

Church to Evangelize? Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2006.

Plummer, Robert L. and John Mark Terry, eds. Paul’s Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours. Downers Grove,

IL: IVP Academic, 2012.

Reinbold, Wolfgang. Propaganda und Mission im ältesten Christentum: Ein Untersuchung zu den

Modalitäten der Ausbreitung der frühen Kirche. FRLANT 188. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000.

Rhoads, D. M. ‘Network for Mission: The Social System of the Jesus Movement as Depicted in the

Narrative of the Gospel of Mark.’ ANRW II.26.2, 1692-1729.

Smith, David. Mission After Christendom. Dartmon, Longman, & Todd, 2003.

Wilckens, Ulrich. Die Missionsreden der Apostelgeschichte. Form- und traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen.

WMANT 5. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1974 [1961].

Winter, Bruce. ‘The Entries and Ethics of Orators and Paul (1 Thessalonians 2.1‐12),’ Tyndale Bulletin 44.1 (1993:

1-32). Online at:

http://www.tyndalehouse.com/tynbul/library/TynBull_1993_44_1_03_Winter_1Thes2_OratorsAndPaul.p

df (accessed June 25, 2014), 57-60.

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Wright, Christopher J. H., The Mission of God’s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission. Biblical

Theology for Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010.

Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Missions

Hiebert, Paul. Anthropological Insights for Missionaries. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 1996.

Hiebert, Paul. The Gospel in Human Contexts: Anthropological Explorations for Contemporary Missions.

Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009.

Howell, Brian M. and Jenell Williams Paris. Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective.

Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2010.

Lingenfelter, Sherwood G. Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal

Relationships, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003.

Bibliographies

Donovan, Vincent. Christianity Rediscovered. London: SCM Press, 2001.

Grams, Rollin. Stewards of Grace: A Reflective Mission Biography of Eugene and Phyllis Grams in South

Africa, 1951-1962. Euguene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010. [Available on Kindle.]

Olson, Bruce. Bruchko: The Astonishing Story of a 19-Year Old American, His Capture by the Motilone

Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe. Charisma House, 2006.

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Syllabus Addendum

Academic Standards

Cheating and plagiarism are considered serious breaches of personal and academic integrity. Cheating

involves, but is not necessarily limited to, the use of unauthorized sources of information during an

examination or the submission of the same (or substantially same) work for credit in two or more

courses without the knowledge and consent of the instructors. Plagiarism involves the use of another

person’s distinctive ideas or words, whether published or unpublished, and representing them as one’s

own instead of giving proper credit to the source. Plagiarism can also involve over dependence on other

source material for the scope and substance of one’s writing. Such breaches in academic standards

often result in a failing grade as well as other corrective measures. For more information, please consult

the Student Handbook.

ADA Policy

The seminary complies with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. A student with a

qualifying and authenticated disability who is in need of accommodations should petition the seminary

in accordance with the stated guidelines in the Student Handbook.

Cancellation of Class

In the event the seminary has to cancel a class meeting (impending storm, professor illness, etc.), the

Registration Office will send out an email (via the GCTS email account) notification to all students

registered in the respective course. If the cancelation occurs the day of the scheduled meeting, the

Registration Office will also attempt to contact students via their primary phone contact on record. The

professor will contact the students (via GCTS account) regarding makeup. If a weekend class is cancelled,

the class will be made up during the scheduled Make-Up weekend (see the academic calendar for the

designated dates). For more info, consult your Student Handbook.

Extension Policy

Arrangements for submission of late work at a date on or before the end date for the semester as noted

on the seminary’s Academic Calendar are made between the student and professor. Formal petition to

the Registration Office is not required in this case. This includes arrangements for the rescheduling of

final exams. However, course work (reading and written) to be submitted after the publicized end date

for the semester must be approved by the Registration Office. An extension form, available online, must

be submitted to the Registration Office prior to the stated date. Requests received after this date will

either be denied or incur additional penalty. For a full discussion of this policy, please consult the

Student Handbook.

Grades

Faculty have six weeks from the course work due date to submit a final grade. Grades are posted on-line

within twenty-four hours of receipt from the professor. Students are expected to check their CAMS

student portal in order to access posted grades (unless instructed otherwise). Those individuals who

need an official grade report issued to a third party should put their request in writing to the

Registration Office.

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Returned Work

Submitted hard-copy course work will be returned to the students if they provide a self-addressed and

postage- paid envelope with their final work. Work submitted without the appropriate envelope will be

destroyed after the grade has been assessed and issued.

Virtual Writing Center

Free assistance in writing papers is available to students through the Virtual Writing Center at Gordon

Conwell. The Virtual Writing Center is staffed by Gordon Conwell graduates, or writing tutors with

specialized knowledge in writing and/or ESL. Generally, this service is available to

CT500 (Introduction to Theological Research)

CO501 (Introduction to Counseling Research)

IS502 (Theological Research and Writing)

If you enrolled in GCTS before Fall 2008, you were not required to take one of the three prerequisites

above, and you may request access to the Virtual Writing Center. Also, ESL writing tutors are available to

ESL students even if they are not currently enrolled in a degree program. If you do not meet one of

these qualifications, but feel you would benefit from using the Virtual Writing Center, contact us and we

will evaluate your status. Email writingcenter@gordonconwell.edu for more information.