Resources on the Emerging Church

What Next?: Connecting Your Ministry with the Generation formerly Known as X*. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 1999.

Bass, Diana Butler. Christianity for the Rest of Us. New York, NY: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006.

Braaten, Carl E. and Robert W. Jenson, eds. The Strange New Word of the Gospel: Re-evangelizing in the Postmodern World. Grand Rapids, Mich: W.B. Eerdmans, 2002.

Brueggemann, Walter.  Cadences of Home: Preaching among Exiles.  Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1997.

Carson, D. A., ed. Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

Claiborne, Shane. Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2006.

Cole, Neil. Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass, 2005.

Costas, Orlando.  Christ Outside the Gate.  Maryknoll: Orbis, 1982.

Detwiler, Craig and Barry Taylor. A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003.

Dockery, David S. The Challenge of Postmodernism, 2nd Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2001.

Frost. Michael. Exiles: Living Missionally in a Postmodern Culture. Peabody, MS: Hendrickson, 2006.

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

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

Heath, Elaine.  “The Emerging Holiness Movement.”  Quarterly Review (summer, 2005), 117-125.

House, Rutba. Schools for Conversion: Twelve Marks of the New Monasticism. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2005.

Jenkins, Philip.  The Next Christendom.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Johnston, Robert K. Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue, revised edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2005.

Kimball, Dan. The Emerging Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003.

Kimball, Dan.  Emerging Worship.  Grand Rapids: Zondervan Emergent ys, 2004.

Kallenberg, Brad J. Live to Tell: Evangelism for a Postmodern Age. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2002.

Lyden, John C.  Film as Religion: Myths, Morals, and Rituals.  New York: New York University Press, 2003.

Lyon, David.  Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times.  Malden, MA: Blackwell Press, 2001.

McClaren, Brian. Finding Faith: A Self Discovery Guide for Your Spiritual Quest. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1999.

McClaren, Brian, A Generous Orthodoxy. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004.

McClaren, Brian, More Ready than You Realize. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000.

McClaren, Brian, A New Kind of Christian. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2001.

McClaren, Brian, The Story We Find Ourselves In. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Newbigin, Lesslie. Lesslie Newbigin: Missionary Theologian, A Reader ed. Paul Weston. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman’s Publishing Company, 2006.

Pagitt, Doug.  Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church.  Grand Rapids: Zondervan Emergent ys, 2003.

Recinos, Harold J. Good News from the Barrio. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2006.

Sweet, Leonard, Andy Crouch, et al.  The Church in Emergent Culture: Five Views.  Grand Rapids: Zondervan Emergent ys, 2003.

Sweet, Leonard. The Gospel According to Starbucks. Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook, 2007.

Wilson-Hartgrove, Jonathan. To Baghdad and Beyond: How I Got Born Again in Babylon. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2006.