Books on the Emerging Church

Andrew Jones has quite an extensive list of books and other documents related to the emerging church. Check out his post here.

Books and Links

There are some new books and links posted on each page now. I’ll be updating them as they become available. I’d like to also have a section with articles from the ooze, next wave, and other news stories about the emerging church.
Most of them are hanging out in my del.icio.us account.
The latest book that I [...]

NT Wright: On Being Born Again

In discussing John 3 and the topic of "being born again," Wright makes some helpful observations. Just as no one ever frames a birth certificate and talks at length about the details of his/her own birth at great length, so it is a bit odd to make the moment of our conversion the focus of [...]

NT Wright for Everyone

I hit a used book sale at the library in Manchester, VT last Friday and struck gold. While I got my hands on a biography of Harry Truman by his daughter Margaret that I’ve been on the look-out for, my real find was Tom Wright’s commentary on the Gospel of John, chapters 1-10. It’s [...]

The Secret Message of Jesus

Scot McKnight has begun posting a summary and some reviews of Brian McLaren’s latest book, The Secret Message of Jesus. McKnight notes that, so far, the reviews and comments are positive. Apparently McLaren is less controversial when dealing with exposition of scripture.
The thrust of the book concerns the significance of Jesus’ teachings on the [...]

Who Tells Your Stories?

One of the latest books I’ve picked up is Island at the Center of the World. It’s the story of Manhatten Island and the founding of New York City from 1600 to roughly 1664 when the English took it over. Many modern histories mention the Dutch only briefly and quickly move on to the [...]

Losing My Fundamentalism

While at the Northshire Bookstore yesterday I picked up Bart Ehrman’s book, Misquoting Jesus. If anything, this book is a monumental achievement. Ehrman has boldly gone where no theologian thought possible to traverse: he has written a popular level book on textual criticism. Textual criticism is not for the faint of heart. It’s a [...]

My way of reading

My way of reading books is probably not the most efficient, but at least I have fun. While I just finished What Saint Paul Really Said, I have a number of other books waiting in the wings to be picked up. I’m about half way through the Last Word by Wright and have [...]

Ministry in the Image of God

As a member of the IVP Book Club, I get little notes in the mail about their latest offerings. I just picked up a used copy of Ministry in the Image of God by Stephen Seamands. It was an impulse buy of sorts, but I could not pass up a chance to check out this [...]

Borders Reading List

As of my last visit to Borders I noticed that Eugene Peterson has released the latest in his series on spiritual theology, Eat This Book. It follows up on Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places and is an important exploration of how we read the Bible in a way that we can live it. I [...]

Cooper Opts in To Heretics Guide

Jordon has posted on Spencer Burke’s new book: A Heretic’s Guide to Eternity. It’s kind of funny to see Spencer writing books. He’s incredibly bright and innovative, always looking ahead to what God has in store for the future. It would seem that books are too constraining for him, not enabling him to play [...]

Recommended Reading

Steve McKoy has a list of recommended books from Tim Keller’s (Redeemer’s) church planting organization, The Movement: Global City Church Planting. 
McKoy has compiled the books into a list that is very useful:Winter 2006: Missional ChurchFall 2005: Urban AnthropologySummer 2005: Global CitiesDecember 2004: EvangelismOctober 2004: Spiritual Life of a Church PlanterAugust 2004: Urban TheologyJune 2004: [...]

The latest by NT Wright

NT Wright keeps pumping out books at an unprecedented rate. His latest work did not receive a very thorough review while I was at Borders, but the dust jacket compares it to Mere Christianity. Wright appears to be carving out his own "generous orthodoxy" for today’s church. As always, it will be fun to read [...]

New Books You Need

This past weekend I hit the Christianity section pretty hard at the Borders in Saratoga Springs, NY. It’s a really nice Borders with a great selection. My focus was on the spirituality section and the church/theology section. I hope to post on some new books that I checked out (yes, I had quite a pile [...]

NT Wright on Systematic Theology

Scott just posted on his problems at WTS relating to systematic theology the other day. So I think it’s fitting to read what NT Wright has to say about systematics.
Wright is apparently not too impressed. In The Last Word, he notes that many systematic theologies have little to do with scripture itself and do not [...]